Ellen Levine Books
Up Close: Rachel Carson
By Ellen Levine
Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her award-winning and controversial book Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of human...
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Freedom's children
By Ellen Levine
Southern blacks who were young and involved in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s describe their experiences.
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The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail
By Ellen Levine
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living...
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Henry s freedom box
By Ellen Levine
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
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