The Journal of Finn Reardon

The Journal of Finn Reardon

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780439188944

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Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.


Kids on Strike!

Kids on Strike!

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780395888926

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Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.


The Boy Who Dared

The Boy Who Dared

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1338214314

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A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times , to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.


The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

Author: Kathryn Lasky

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9780590684897

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A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.


Growing Up in Coal Country

Growing Up in Coal Country

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780395979143

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Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


The Journal of C.J. Jackson

The Journal of C.J. Jackson

Author: William Durbin

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9780439153065

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Desperate to survive during the Dust Bowl, C. J. Jackson and his family leave the panhandle of Oklahoma and head west to California, where they hope to make a better life for themselves.


Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus)

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1338088378

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Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.


They Called Themselves the K.k.k.

They Called Themselves the K.k.k.

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0547488033

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Boys, let us get up a club.With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America’s democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, this account from Newbery Honor-winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book to read and remember. A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist.


Terrible Typhoid Mary

Terrible Typhoid Mary

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0544313674

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What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology and enduring questions about who Mary Mallon really was. How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease? And who is really responsible for the lasting legacy of Typhoid Mary? This thorough exploration includes an author's note, timeline, annotated source notes, and bibliography.


The Journal of Rufus Rowe

The Journal of Rufus Rowe

Author: Sid Hite

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780439353649

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In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there.