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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, Margaret talks over her problems with her own private God.

This book is about the past presidents, from George Bush to Bill Clinton, it tells their biography is a comical way. It offers facts, and comments said about each president while in office. They tell about all of the perks of being in office, having to do chores, and the downside of being president, scandals, etc.

Let Them Play is a book about a black little league baseball team who were unable to play in the little league world series due to the time they lived in.  This book takes place in segregated, SC in 1955.  It deals with the happenings of the civil rights also.  In this book the boys traveled to play in the world series but were unable to because there were no white teams that would play them.  I feel this book is a memoir of Jackie Robinson because he was teh first black to be in the league.  The illustrations are beautifully drawn in this book and it depicts exaclty how things happen during that time. 

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president, the first woman to have a seat on the stock exchange, the first woman to own a newspaper, and the first woman to speak before Congress. She was born in poverty, she was the seventh of ten children. Because her family was so poor, she began working at age eight as a child preacher. When she got older, she knew she wanted a better life. She married, divorced, moved to New York City, and became a millionaire by offering Cornelius Vanderbilt financial advice from the spirit world.  Through all of that, she still wanted more. She wanted to address and challenge society’s strict limitations on women. She announced herself as the first female president candidate for the presidency of the United States. She founded her newspaper to publicize her 1872 campaign. Even though she did not win, she made history and times for women would never be the same.

Amazing Grace is a book about a little girl named Grace. She is a very energetic girl who loves to act out stories when they are read to her. When she finds out that her class is performing the play “Peter Pan”, she wants to try out for the main character, Peter Pan. Her classmates disapprove of her because she is a girl and the part of Peter Pan is a boy, and also because she is black. Despite her classmates disapproval, Grace is reminded by her grandmother that she can do anything she puts her mind to. With that said, Grace tries out for the part, and wows her classmates and teacher. Because of her awesome performance, she gets the role of Peter Pan.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a comical story told through the eyes of nine year old Kenny. Kenny’s older brother is becoming and handful so the Watsons decide to take a road trip from Flint, Michigan to Alabama to visit Kenny’s grandmother. Kenny’s grandmother is said to be the one who can straighten his older brother out. This book is set in 1963 during the Civil Rights movement and depicts the trials that African Americans faced at that time. Although it was a rough time, through Kenny’s eyes, a wonderful story is told and a bit of history is released to the reader.

Nowadays it’s no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day’s pay. This book tells the exciting adventure of how May was ‘mailed’ to her grandmother’s house.

Two children discover an arrowhead, and a broken china cup wondering what life was life 300 years ago.  The author takes you back through the years on that same land before that house was built showing you what life was life and what those people had to go through to get back to where they were in present time.