Patricia McCormick

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1) I am Malala: how one girl stood up for education and changed the world

Author

Yousafzai, Malala

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
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Women's History - Young Adults
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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...

2) Purple Heart

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Language

English

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When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into...

3) Sergeant Reckless: the true story of the little horse who became a hero

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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Relates the true story of a brave little mare who carried artillery shells into battle numerous times with the U.S. Marines she supported throughout the Korean War.

4) Sold

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults

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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

5) The plot to kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer : pastor, spy, unlikely hero

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

6) Cut

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

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While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.