Carla Killough McClafferty

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International Reading Association, Children's Book Award Winners
Orbis Pictus Honor Books, 2007
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Books for young readers
In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
This book reveals a little known story of an American Holocaust rescuer who helped refugees out of France in 1940-41.
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
This biography of Marie Curie reveals the woman as well as the scientist. It also describes what the world at large did with her discoery, radium.
The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-ray
With an engaging text and numerous historical photographs, this book tells about the X-ray from its discovery to its uses today in art, archeology, science, industry and more.
Inspirational
Forgiving God: A Woman's Struggle to Understand When God Answers No
This beautifully told story of triumph over tragedy reveals a Mother's spiritual and emotional journey back to God after losing her son to accidental injuries.

In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Varian Fry, a Harvard educated American journalist, volunteered to go to Marseilles, France in 1940 where he succeeded in arranging the escape of more than 2000 predominately Jewish refugees.

The true story of an American Holocaust rescuer.