Sherry Garland

A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.

"A fresh approach to the topic in a picture-book format." --School Library Journal " An impressive historical picture book." --Midwest Book Review The story of the Alamo encompasses far more than a thirteen-day siege that ended in a battle on March 6, 1836. In Voices of the Alamo, that story begins in the 1500s with the Native Americans who inhabited the area we now call Texas. Page by page, different voices--among them Spanish, Tejano, Texian,...

A Vietnamese folktale explaining why ducks sleep on one leg.

Tells the story of the events leading up to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor using first-hand historical narratives of those who witnessed the tragedy.

In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.

Relates, through illustrations and short passages, events of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath as seen through the eyes of soldiers, from generals to privates, as well as various civilians. Includes historical notes.

Host LeVar Burton introduces the book The lotus seed by Sherry Garland about a young Vietnamese woman who, when forced to flee her country, takes a lotus seed with her as a warm reminder of her past. Also, a Vietnamese girl, a Muslim boy from Yemen, a girl from South Africa, and other immigrants talk about their lives in the United States. Other books mentioned are I'm new here by Bud Howlett, Halmoni and the picnic by Sook Nyul Choi, and Grandfather's...