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|  | A Place Called Peculiar by Frank K. Gallant, Victoria Roberts
Amusing stories of how various odd town names came to be: Delightful, Ohio; Cheesequake, New Jersey; Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky, and many more. AUTHOR: Frank K. Gallant, Victoria Roberts
PUBLISHER: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Our Paris by Edmund White, Hubert Sorin
A tour of Paris by Edmund White and Hubert Sorin--their favorite people and places in the Chatelet, the literati, couturiers, and art dealers, the shopkeepers and prostitutes, and their basset hound named Fred. Beneath their ramble is the story of Sorin's struggle with AIDS as he neared the end of his life. AUTHOR: Edmund White, Hubert Sorin
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | One-Room School by Raymond Bial
Plum Grove, Prairie Rose, Possum Hollow, Good Intent, and Apple Pie -- for 250 years one-room schools with names like these existed across America. Blessed with remoteness, small size, and simplicity, most of them offered not only a safe place to learn, but also a family-like setting and an education rooted in community. Ray Bial's camera eloquently captures the wistful-looking little buildings of logs, sod, wood, or stone, and his narrative, spiced with quotes from the teachers and students who spent so much time there, brings to life both the charm and hardships of our rural schools. As readers imagine a school without buses and computers, hot lunch programs and gymnasiums, they will also marvel at these students' determination to learn in a single room, poorly-heated and simply furnished with puncheon benches and slate pencils. AUTHOR: Raymond Bial
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | To Be a Slave by Julius Lester, Lynne Thigpen, Michele-Denise Woods, Peter F. James, Tom Feelings
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences, from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early 20th century. AUTHOR: Julius Lester, Lynne Thigpen, Michele-Denise Woods, Peter F. James, Tom Feelings
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Inada
Description not available.Personal documents, art, propoganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. AUTHOR: Lawson Inada
PUBLISHER: Heyday Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | When Johnny Went Marching by Gary C. Wisler
Profiles of 49 young people who fought in the American Civil War. AUTHOR: Gary C. Wisler
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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