9780385753609

Awards and Honors 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 6–8
2015 Cybils Awards Nomination, Young Adult Nonfiction
Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education, 2016 Best Children’s Books of the Year, History

FDR and the American Crisis

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Was Franklin D. Roosevelt a champion of the poor and a defender of freedom, or was he an elite who violated civil rights? In fact, America’s thirty-second president was all of these things—and more. Notes. List of books on FDR and his times. Index. Black-and white reproductions of period documents and artwork. Black-and-white photographs.

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Nonfiction High Plus (Grades 9 & Up)

Nonfiction High Plus

Nonfiction High Plus (Grades 9 & Up)

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