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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students,the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging...
4) Killer fish
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Introduces some dangerous sea creatures and describes the ways they kill.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the colonists' stand to control their own destinies, detailing the protest meetings at Old South Church, the defiant act of dumping the tea into the harbor, and the reaction from the British.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, a movement was set in motion that led to other nonviolent boycotts, marches, and walks--resulting in the civil rights movement and major social changes throughout the nation.--
Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history of the port of entry off the coast of California that was "the other Ellis Island" for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was it, as President Ronald Reagan would claim, "a noble cause"? In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America's wars. Describing how a superpower caught up in Cold War politics became increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away, he then explains why twenty years later an exit was so difficult. In words...
20) Buffalo hunt
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
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