Three women from very different backgrounds find their paths cross in The Exiles.
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1 Eighteen years have passed since one of the most tragic days in our country’s history. Eighteen years means that this year’s high school graduates were just babies or not even born yet on that day. They have never known anything other than a world where terrorism is something to constantly watch for. They have not known the joy of greeting a loved one just as they step off a plane. They have also not know a time where America did not have troops deployed to a war zone.
Remembering Sept. 11, 2001: Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff ...
I would recommend this to high school readers or older who want to have a good grasp on history. I know there is controversy surrounding Shapiro, but The Right Side of History is not about America’s left vs. right. This book is about history and how we got to where we are. It’s important to know your history as you move toward the future.
The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro
In No Ocean Too Wide, Laura sets out on a journey to find her siblings and bring them back home to their mother, who has recovered from her illness.
No Ocean Too Wide by Carrie Turansky
4 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The enormous sympathy aroused by the newspaper accounts, the pictures, the songs and poems, brought on the greatest outpouring of popular charity the country had ever seen.” On May 31, 1889, water poured over and broke through a dam releasing water that would damage a countryside and […]
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
2 This book is dedicated to “the man in Preston, Idaho, who stood and asked me when I would start ‘writing history as stories to make them more interesting’.” History can be interesting. Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America by Glenn Beck tells 12 stories […]