"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow...
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Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows — the College of Lucidity, the rebel cause — Octavian hopes to...
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway...
The sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge have been waiting to play in the annual softball game -- the Bat 6 -- for as long as they can remember.
But something is different this year. There's a new girl on both teams, each with a secret...
Leaving Home...forever. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes she could flee. According to...
Когда мы завидели мост, мое сердце обрадовалось, но мой кучер с ним не согласился. Остановя кибитку, он вышел осмотреться, подпрыгнул...
Конец IX века. Умер великий князь Святослав. Его наследником стал старший сын Ярополк. Но младший брат Владимир, рожденный от рабыни,...
Когда величайший из владык Западного мира решает наладить дипломатические отношения с могущественным правителем Востока, он делает...
Два философо-приключенческих романа двух прославленных писателей начала XIX века объединяет общность темы — Древняя история.
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Гражданская война глазами белых. В повести показана трагическая судьба дворянской семьи Берсеневых вырванной с корнем и погибшей в...