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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 94 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.' That's all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasn't enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He asked relatives for any papers they might have. He read...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
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