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1) We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Vi

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This revelatory and gripping nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only place in the United States to ever formally deny its citizens a public education, and the students who pushed back. In 1954, after the passing of Brown v. the Board of Education, the all-White school board of one county in south central Virginia...

2) Fly girls: the daring American women pilots who helped win WWII

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Pearson, P. O'Connell

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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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[2018]

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In the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country's call in its time of need during World War II.

3) Fighting for the forest: how FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps helped save America

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Pearson, P. O'Connell

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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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[2019]

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Tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC's first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt's Tree Army. -- amazon.com