{"title":"5th Grade, Advance, Unit 7, Conflicts That Shaped a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks for the 5th Grade Advance Unit 7 curriculum on Conflicts That Shaped a Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"letters-from-cuba","title":"Letters from Cuba","description":"\u003cp\u003eLetters from Cuba is the Pura Belpré Award-winning novel by Ruth Behar, inspired by her grandmother's true story — following eleven-year-old Esther, a Jewish girl who flees Poland alone to join her father in Cuba as Nazi persecution intensifies, leaving her beloved sister Malka behind and writing her everything she witnesses in a series of vivid letters. In Cuba, Esther discovers a vibrant, multicultural community of kindness and struggle, while working desperately to earn enough money to bring her family to safety before it is too late. This is an extraordinary choice for students because it illuminates the little-known history of Jewish refugees in Cuba during World War II, and tells a deeply moving story of immigration, resilience, family love, and the courage to face the unknown — through the intimate, powerful voice of a young girl determined to save the people she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books del Sur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837568417910,"sku":"9780525516491","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1752\/6773\/files\/letters-from-cuba-9780525516491.png?v=1786465927"},{"product_id":"wolf-hollow","title":"Wolf Hollow","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in rural Pennsylvania in 1943, Wolf Hollow follows twelve-year-old Annabelle, who has grown up in the peaceful shadow of two world wars — until a cruel new girl named Betty Glengarry arrives and begins targeting Toby, a gentle and traumatized World War I veteran the whole town regards as strange but whom Annabelle knows only as kind. As Betty's bullying escalates dangerously, Annabelle must decide whether she has the courage to stand as a lone voice for truth when the entire community is poised to believe the worst. Wolf Hollow is a beautifully written, haunting novel that has drawn comparisons to To Kill a Mockingbird, and it is an extraordinary choice for students because it explores prejudice, moral courage, and the price of speaking out with lyrical prose and remarkable emotional depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books del Sur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837568516214,"sku":"9781101994849","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1752\/6773\/files\/wolf-hollow-9781101994849.png?v=1786465927"},{"product_id":"dk-eyewitness-world-war-i","title":"Eyewitness World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003eDK Eyewitness World War I, produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, takes young readers on a visual tour of the first global conflict — covering the causes of the war, life in the muddy trenches, breakthrough weapons like tanks and poison gas, the key battles and campaigns, and the Armistice and its aftermath — through more than 250 striking photographs, maps, diagrams, timelines, and expert first-hand accounts. Fully revised and fact-checked for this updated edition, the book makes one of the defining events of the 20th century vivid, accessible, and deeply engaging for ages 9–12. It is an excellent classroom resource because its visual format and bite-sized information structure help students build content knowledge, develop historical understanding, and see the human dimensions of global conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books del Sur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837576708214,"sku":"9780744084757","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1752\/6773\/files\/eyewitness-world-war-i-9780744084757.png?v=1786465927"},{"product_id":"the-black-pimpernel","title":"The Black Pimpernel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Black Pimpernel tells the gripping true story of the eighteen months in 1961–62 when Nelson Mandela went underground after an unexpected acquittal, living under false identities — sometimes as a chauffeur, sometimes a gardener — as the South African police, assisted by MI5 and the CIA, hunted him in vain. His secret mission during this time was to establish armed resistance to apartheid, a decision that would change the course of South African history. Written by award-winning South African author Zukiswa Wanner and illustrated with comic-book style artwork by Amerigo Pinelli, this tense, gripping chapter book from Pushkin's True Adventures series is an excellent choice for students because it brings a pivotal chapter of the anti-apartheid struggle to life through the eyes of one of history's most extraordinary figures, showing young readers the extraordinary personal cost and courage that political resistance requires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books del Sur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837578150006,"sku":"9781782693079","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1752\/6773\/files\/the-black-pimpernel-9781782693079.png?v=1786465927"},{"product_id":"the-length-of-a-string","title":"Length Of A String","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Length of a String weaves together two parallel stories across time: Imani, a Black Jewish girl in present-day Baltimore who wants to find her birth parents as a bat mitzvah gift, and her great-grandmother Anna, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone in 1941 to start a new life in Brooklyn. When Imani discovers Anna's journal among her late great-grandmother's belongings, the two stories — and the two girls' shared longing for belonging and family — begin to illuminate each other in ways neither could have imagined. This is an exceptional book for students because it explores adoption, identity, the Holocaust, and Black and Jewish experiences with remarkable tenderness and dual-narrative structure, making it perfect for discussions of family, heritage, and what it means to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books del Sur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837585293430,"sku":"9780735229488","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1752\/6773\/files\/length-of-a-string-9780735229488.png?v=1786465927"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdelsur.com\/collections\/5th-grade-advance-unit-7-conflicts-that-shaped-a-nation.oembed","provider":"Books del Sur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}