Fast-paced History

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• Historical information
• Fast pace
• Nonfiction

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
943.086 BAR
Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, this book explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth.

The Children’s Blizzard
By David Laskin
978.02 LAS
Laskin describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people, including numerous schoolchildren.

With Courage and Cloth
By Ann Bausum
324.623 BAU
Chronicles the final years of the struggle for women's voting rights, focusing on the activities of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party and their part in the successful passage of the 19th Amendment.

Journey from the Land of No
By Roya Hakakian
BIO Hakakian
An Iranian American poet recounts her life as a daughter of Jewish parents growing up in Tehran, during which she witnessed the impact of the Ayatollah Khomeini's return to the nation and contemplated political asylum.