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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman honors the woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life, discussing her roles as a slave, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a nurse, a Union spy, and a suffragist.
A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Introduces the life of the Shoshone woman Sacajawea, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American wilderness.
"More than 200 years ago, explorers went on a cross-country expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Only with the help of a young girl from the Shoshone tribe was the trip was a success. Her name was Sacajawea, and she did this all with her baby strapped to her back. A remarkable History Reader for newly independent readers...
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Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe, in a portrait complemented by hand-drawn maps and archival photographs.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A vibrantly illustrated story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, one of the most inspiring and important figures of the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J.K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga. Rowling's true-life, rags-to-riches story is as compelling as the world of Hogwarts that she created. This biography details not only Rowling's life and her love of literature but the story behind the creation of a modern classic"--...
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Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated valedictorian from her high school before becoming one of the first African American students at Antioch College in Ohio. It was there that she became politically...
13) J.K. Rowling
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Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
16) Mother Teresa
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
17) Marie Curie
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
19) Abigail Adams
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Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the wife of the second president of the United States, a dedicated wife and mother who spoke up against slavery and for women's rights.
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