New booksets available at the RIROE Library:
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
By: Meg Wiviott
(Set of 
Grade level: 2nd – 5th Grade
Benno was the neighborhood’s favorite at. During the week, he napped in a sunny corner of Mitzi Stein’s dress shop and begged scraps from Moshe the butcher. But one night in Berlin, the Nazis changed everything. life would bever be the same.
Farewell to Manzanar
by: Jeanne Wakatsuke Houston & James D. Houston
(Set of
Grade level: 6th -12th Grade
Jeanne Wakatsuki was 7 years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton-twirling lessons, and a dance band called the Jive Bombers, who would play any popular song except the nation’s number one hit: “Don’t Fence Me In.” This is a true story of one spirited Japanese American family’s attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention…and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
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The Japanese American Internment
by: Rachael Hanel
(set of 5)
Grade level: 3rd – 6th Grade
It is 1942, just months after Japanese forces made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The president signs a law to move every person of Japanese descent living on the West Coast to one of 10 relocation camps. Will you be sent to the camp at Manzanar in Southern California? or Will you join a resistance group at Tule Lake in northern California? OR Will you become a teacher at the Rohwer camp in Arkansas to help the Japanese people who are being held there? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what happens next. The choices you make could lead you to freedom, to prison, or back to Japan.
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Baseball Saved Us
by: Ken Mochizuki
(set of 10)
Grade level: 2nd – 5th grade
Surrounded by guards, fences, and desert, Japanese-Americans in an internment camp create a baseball field. A young boy tells how baseball gave them a purpose while enduring injustice and humiliation. This first person narrative is moving.
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Freedom Train (The Story of Harriet Tubman)
by: Dorothy Sterling
(set of 19)
Grade level: 3rd – 5th grade
Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible-certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet was strong-willed and courageous. “Someday,” she said, “I’m going to be free.” When finally she did escape North, by the secret route called the “Underground Railroad,” Harriet didn’t forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous journey.
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The Bears on Hemlock Moutain
by: Alice Dalgliesh
(set of 26)
Grade level: 1st – 4th grade
Jonathan lived in a stone farmhouse at the foot of Hemlock Mountain. Grownups did not think there were bears on Hemlock Mountain, but Jonathan did. Besides, Uncle James said he had once seen a bear…
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The Ellison Die-Cutting Machine is available for your use, a $2.00 fee is required for use to cut as long as you please, this money is used to purchase more dies, please supply your own paper.
- For a listing of our die-cuts, LIST ELLISON DIE CUTS Please note that we also have the letters of the alphabet (upper & lower case), along with the numbers 0-9 which are not listed.
- Full-size laminating is also available for your use at RIROE the fee for laminating is 75 cents a foot.
- Posters made no larger than 22″ wide X infinity cost is $4.00 for a full color poster
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