JOHN DEVANEY Books
America goes to war, 1941
Uses brief personal vignettes to pinpoint dramatic and significant events, concerning both political figures and ordinary people, during the first year of America's involvement in World War II.
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America goes to war, 1941
Uses brief personal vignettes to pinpoint dramatic and significant events, concerning both political figures and ordinary people, during the first year of America's involvement in World War II.
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America Fights the Tide
Brief vignettes, photographs, and maps describe the Second World War in 1942, from the viewpoint of soldiers in foxholes, sailors aboard ships, pilots in fighter planes, and soldiers landing on ene...
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Red-dirt Jessie
By Anna Myers
Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.
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A boy becomes a man at Wounded Knee
By Ted Wood
Describes the events that led to the massacre of Lakota (Sioux) Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the experiences of a young boy as he rides with his people to commemorate this event one hundred...
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