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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North is a 2000 book by Patricia McKissack about a girl, Nellie, who from 1919 records her thoughts and experiences in a diary including her home in rural Tennessee, as a part of The Great Migration, and her new home in Chicago. It is part of the Dear America book series.
In a letter seen by the local newspaper Brimbank Weekly the inspectorate claimed to have found 'insufficient evidence to support a prosecution'. [13] The Ombudsman's report led to the passage of new laws banning councillors from working as staffers to members of Parliament. It also played a role in the eventual sacking of Brimbank Council in ...
In 2008 and 2009, the Brimbank City Council was the subject of several investigations into alleged misconduct by councillors. On 30 July 2008, the state MP for Keilor, George Seitz, invoked parliamentary privilege in the Legislative Assembly to accuse former Brimbank mayor Cr Natalie Suleyman of branch stacking, describing her as the "Robert Mugabe of Brimbank".
The series includes the first book illustrated by Andrew Wyeth, The Brandywine; Marjory Stoneman Douglas' The Everglades: River of Grass which successfully focused public attention on the plight of the Everglades; Paul Horgan's Great River: The Rio Grande in America History, considered the definitive study of the early Southwest; and poet Edgar ...
These books were reprints of popular books previously sold for $1.00 to $1.50. With the assistance of the various original publishers, the Boy Scouts of America was able to reprint these works for 50 cents a volume. Merchandising was handled by Grosset and was widely distributed. It was well received by librarians, public school teachers ...
Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for children published by Scholastic starting in 1996. By 1998, the series had 12 titles with 3.5 million copies in print. [1] The series was canceled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010.
The Starbuck Chronicles are a series of historical fiction novels by British author Bernard Cornwell set during the American Civil War. They follow the exploits of Boston-born Confederate officer Nathaniel Starbuck. Four novels have been written, and the series is still unfinished due to Cornwell's commitment to other projects.
A Navajo girl, in part of the Dear America book series. Ann Turner [citation needed] Injun Joe: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The arch nemesis of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, described as a "half-breed" Native American. He subsequently kills Dr. Robinson at the town cemetery and frames the friendly fisherman, Muff Potter, for the crime ...