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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she cannot understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Paints a vivid portrait of heroic Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, who valiantly fought for the rights of her people, including establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy. But when World War I begins, it launches the world, and Henry, into turmoil. While facing enemy fire at Gallipoli, Henry discovers the strength he needs to survive in an unexpected source: a tortoise. And so begins the friendship of a lifetime. Based on true events, and with charming illustrations, this story...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the little brown dog from the market square is hurt in a car accident, the police can't trace the owner. Nobody seems to want him. But there's a surprise in store for the loveable stray - and James Herriot - when a mysterious rescuer arrives.
10) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
12) The shape game
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Caldecott Medal-winning author of "Noah's Ark" now offers the Biblical story of Jonah from his own translation of the Dutch "staten Bijbel," with historical sidelights and illustrations of every episode.
Author
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
" A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!"--
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A fictional journal recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Author
Publisher
Luna Rising
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Gabito had the ability to imagine many things. He lived in a small house with a large family. He would grow up to become a writer known as Gabriel García Márquez.
Sumario en español: Como un niño, Gabito tenía la capacidad de imaginar muchas cosas. Él vivió en una pequeña casa con una gran familia. Él llega a ser un escritor conocido como Gabriel García Márquez.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Kathleen Krull comes an empowering picture book biographywith dazzling illustrations from artist Nancy Zhangabout the second female justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be one of the most respected women in the United States, but her recognition is nothing short of hard-won. For years before becoming a justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth had to fight the notion that being female meant...
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