Chronological Period/1950's
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Maryellen: Taking Off
$7.99 Add to cartMaryellen is in charge of planning her tenth birthday, designing a flying machine, and – most important of all – taking care of the family dog, Scooter, on a camping trip. One night, while she’s holdi… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371372
- Language: English
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Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
$17.99 Read more“A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It’s also about being an American–especially a first-generation American.” –Roz Chast
This graphic-novel debut- Author: Russo, Marisabina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250894573
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960: Vol. 5 Paperback Edition
$22.99 Add to cartAs the first decade of Peanuts closes, Charlie Brown’s sister Sally makes her appearance — first as an (off-panel) brand new baby for Charlie to gush over, then as a toddler and eventually a real, ta… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1606999214
- Language: English
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Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson
$19.99 Add to cartSharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.
When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0545052513
- Language: English
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel
$17.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-los- Series: Flavia de Luce #6
- Author: Bradley, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0385344066
- Language: English
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Abide with Me
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor o… [more below]
- Author: Strout, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0812971825
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952
$29.99 Read moreFantagraphics Books has announced the most exciting publishing project in the history of the American comic strip: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz’s classic, “Peanuts.” The most popular c… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 156097589X
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$12.79 Read moreThe My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and r… [more below]
- Series: My Itty-Bitty Bio
- Author: Haldy, Emma E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634706013
- Language: English
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The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
$17.00 Read moreThe Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glo
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0812986741
- Language: English
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-los- Series: Flavia de Luce #6
- Author: Bradley, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0385344066
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Paperback Edition
$22.99 Add to cartIn this fourth paperback volume, the 1950s close down and Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1606998706
- Language: English
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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99 Read more“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$22.95 Read moreThe Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172183
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
$9.99 Read moreLinus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for nearly 50 years thanks to the animated television special (“I got a rock”), and it all started in the classic Peanuts st… [more below]
- Series: Peanuts Seasonal Collection #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1606997726
- Language: English
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My Louisiana Sky
$8.99 Add to cartTiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana–far away from her mentally disabled mother, her “slow” father who can’t read an electric bill, and her clas
- Author: Holt, Kimberly Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0312660952
- Language: English
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Maryellen: The One and Only
$7.99 Add to cartMaryellen Larkin wants to stand out but, with five brothers and sisters, it’s not so easy. Giving herself a haircut doesn’t go quite the way she expects – and when she draws a cartoon of her teacher o… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371364
- Language: English
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Action Jackson
$9.99 Read moreOne late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist).
Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and S- Author: Greenberg, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0312367511
- Language: English
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Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$9.99 Read moreMamie “Peanut” Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn’t welcome in the segregated All-American Girls Pro Baseball League due to the color of her … [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1684467993
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$8.99 Read moreNow in paperback! In this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.”
Rosa Parks grew up in Alab- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #9
- Author: Kaiser, Lisbeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284180
- Language: English
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This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
$17.99 Read moreRecipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor
Winner of the 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
2020 National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Honor Recipient
A NY- Author: Boyce, Jo Ann Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1681198525
- Language: English
