Deborah Hopkinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Like other girls of her time Susan B. Anthony learned how to cook and sew. But unlike most girls she also received an education. She learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. She was also taught that girls and women could do anything boys and men could do-if only they were allowed. So Susan set out to change the laws. She fought for a woman's right to own property, hold down a job, and, most important, vote. The right to vote would become Susan's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017.
14) The long trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The WWII invasion of Allied troops into German-occupied Europe, known as D-Day, was the largest military endeavor in history. By the time it occurred on June 6, 1944, Hitler and the Axis powers had a chokehold grip on the European continent, which the Allies called "Fortress Europe." Behind enemy lines, Nazi Germany was engaged in the mass extermination of the Jewish people and the oppression of civilians across Europe. The goal of D-Day was no less...
16) Trim sets sail
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Trim gets off to a bumpy start as ship's cat, new friends, human and animal, help him settle in.
One small kitten learns about the great big world as he sets sail with his fellow shipmates, animal and human, in this historical fiction intermediate reader. When Trim trips over a napping dog, little does he know that soon he’ll set sail and begin learning how to be a ship’s cat. Among his first lessons: the parts of the ship (the front is...
17) Trim helps out
Author
Series
Adventures of Trim volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On his first morning at sea, ship's cat Trim looks for ways to help out, and makes a new friend along the way.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
“Carter G. Woodson didn't just read history. He changed it.” As the father of Black History Month, he spent his life introducing others to the history of his people. Carter G. Woodson was born to two formerly enslaved people ten years after the end of the Civil War. Though his father could not read, he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day. When he was still a teenager, Carter went to work in the...