New Releases by Ellen Levine

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn''t know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves'' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

Jamie and Elaine have been best friends forever, and now they''re finally juniors in high school. Elaine has a steady boyfriend, and Jamie could have one?if she''d just open her eyes and see Paul. But Jamie has a bigger problem to worry about. Then Elaine gets "in trouble"?something they thought only happened to "other" girls. Are there any good choices for a girl in trouble? In Trouble is a novel born of author Ellen Levine''s interviews with women who came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including those who knew what it was like to be a teen facing a horrible choice. In the decades before Roe v. Wade, a young woman "in trouble" had very few options?and all of them meant shame, isolation, and maybe much worse. Jamie and Elaine''s stories are just two among the thousands of stories of teenagers facing unplanned pregnancies.

After a baby sea otter is separated from his mother during a storm, he washes up on shore where he is rescued by a human who takes him to an aquarium to recover. There he learns everything he needs to know about surviving in the wild, like how to dive to the bottom of a pool to find clams and how to break them open to eat. Before long the little otter can take care of himself and it''s time to return home. He remembers the smell of the ocean he once knew, and soon finds himself surrounded by a new group of otter friends.

Henry Brown ne savait pas très bien quel âge il avait. Henry était un esclave. Et les esclaves n''avaient pas le droit de connaître la date de leur anniversaire. Henry rêve d''un monde où la vie lui appartient. Mais lorsque sa famille est vendue, il risque tout pour ce qu''il sait être juste. Avec la force et la conviction des plus grands héros, Henry entreprend un voyage épuisant dans une caisse en bois - et s''expédie lui-même vers la liberté ! Dans cette histoire vraie et prenante, Ellen Levine raconte les extraordinaires péripéties d''Henry " Box " Brown avec grâce et émotion. Les peintures lumineuses de Kadir Nelson baignent de leur clarté l''âme de chaque personnage. Ensemble, ils rendent inoubliable ce récit exemplaire.

In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper.

This book explores the notion of creativity as an internal fire or sense of aliveness and vitality in the self. Ellen Levine brings together a theoretical understanding drawn from psychoanalytic literature, with clinical material from practice as a child psychotherapist and expressive artist. Now in its second edition with a new Introduction.

An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.

Details the traditional life, customs, and everyday world of the Iroquois--one of the strongest and most significant Native American nations--in a question-and-answer format

Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York''s Ellis Island, from the 1880s to 1914. Features quotes from children and adults who passed through the station.

When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to adjust to school and learn the alien sounds of English.

Japanese Americans children from World War II tells of how they were taken away from their homes and sent to prison camps because of an evacation order from President Franklin Roosevelt in February 1942.

The story of a five-hundred-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas, is told from the tree''s point of view, covers the nation''s history that took place during the tree''s lifetime, and describes the malicious 1989 poisoning that nearly destroyed it.

Takes the reader back to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, tracing the efforts of Dr. King and other civil rights activists

If You... series.

This book takes you to San Francisco, California, shortly before, during and after the great earthquake of April 18, 1906.

For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.

The rights of single people--divorced never married, living alone, or living with a lover--are rapidly changing. Knowing them can help you protect yourself when it comes to owning property, finding an apartment, having children, dealing with employers, avoiding domestic entanglements, and more. This frankly written guide alerts you to the legal problems faced by singles and lets you understand what rights you have under present law, and w h y . & l t; b r & g t; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; & a m p; n b s p; The Rights of Single People includes an explanation of the palimony issues raised by Marvin v. Marvin, a summary of the states which have decided cases dealing with the contract and property rights of unmarriedcohabitants, and guidance in the making of written agreements or joint purchases by unmarried couples.

"On June 17, 1986, NCAC held a luncheon meeting to hear the two dissenting commissioners of the Attorney General''s Commission on Pornography ... Becker and Levine voiced their objections to the Meese Commission''s work in a 20-page formal dissent, which is attached." -- Cover.

Abstract: A reference book provides guidance for those in health care management who have had no formal training. Part 1 examines selected management functions (planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, directing, communicating, and motivating). Part 2 looks at the organizational environment and dynamics: clientele networks, survival strategies, and personal, work group, and organizational conflict. Principles of psychology and sociology are applied to help managers gain insight into management problems to help them develop inner and outer harmony in a health care setting. (kbc).

Note "Lesbianism" in the index.