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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
2) Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes--
Describing the eighteenth-century dilemma regarding the inability to measure longitude at sea, the story of John Harrison and his development of the chronometer recounts the circumstances surrounding its invention.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
An account of the sensational 1974 kidnapping and trial of Patty Hearst describes the efforts of her family to secure her release, Hearst's baffling participation in a bank robbery, and the psychological insights that prompted modern understandings about Stockholm syndrome.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”٬٢٠١٤؛USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”٬٢٠١٤؛The New York Times (Best Books of the Year)...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recounts the authors' chance meeting and relationship beyond the YouTube highlights, sharing their spiritual journey, past heartaches and mistakes, and the joys and challenges of raising their daughter Everleigh.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapochief Rudolf Diels.
In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha....
12) Lindbergh
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 51
Language
English
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Chronicles the life of Charles Lindbergh and discusses his childhood, his influence and accomplishments in the aviation industry, his child's murder, and his work on creating an artificial heart
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A major new book from #1 New York Times bestseller and sports-writing legend John Feinstein, QUARTERBACK dives deep into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL - exploring the stories of five top quarterbacks and taking readers inside their unique experiences of playing the position and holding the keys to their multi-billion-dollar teams. In the mighty National Football League, one player becomes the face of a franchise, one player receives...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of scientific maverick Luca Turin, a man whose remarkable powers of smell and obsession with perfume led to the discovery of how the nose works and how scents are detected.
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick SUskind's novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The entertainment artist best known for her web videos shares stories of her homeschooled childhood, her rags-to-riches professional successes, and her thoughts on such topics as creativity, video games, and feminism.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A Rip in Heaven is jeanine Cummin's story of a night in April 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn't have been more wrong. Tom, his sister jeanine and their entire...
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[[1994] 1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the renowned theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology further than most in his field, despite his need for wheelchair and computer to travel and communicate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
20) Crazy Horse
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Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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