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1) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, international tensions mount as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder not suicide. When more suspicious deaths occur, Bell realizes that a spy is killing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Altea
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Biografía de la esclava que escapó la esclavitud y arriesgó su vida para ayudar a otros esclavos a huir hacia la libertad.
5) Truman
Author
Publisher
SpeechWorks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains highlights of major speeches given by Harry S. Truman.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at the life and accomplishments of this extraordinary woman who, after being born into slavery, risked her own freedom and life to save hundreds of others through the Underground Railroad, and who later became a hardworking advocate for abolition and the rights of her people.
Publisher
Great Projects Film Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"From the Emmy Award® winning and Oscar® nominated producers of the four-part PBS series Great Projects: The Building of America, now comes Building Alaska, a century-long journey with the dedicated and visionary men and women who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote and forbidding part of the United States. This feature-length documentary tells the stories of the great railroads and highways of the late 19th and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Missie and Willie have set up a homestead and are starting a family. The new railroad will make it possible for Missie's father to visit. When the reunion is interrupted by tragedy, this family's faith and love are once again challenged.
Publisher
HIT Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Chug along with Thomas for a wonderfully wobbly and wheel-spinning good time! Your favorite friend has bridges to cross and tracks to uncover in these exciting adventures. When Victor gets overloaded with too many tasks, can Thomas help him let out the steam? While trying to get Scruff as clean as a whistle, will Thomas have to get his own wheels dirty? Just when things seem to be rolling along, will Ol' Wheezy make a wobbly mess of Thomas' special...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
13) Still dreaming
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation."--
"In the first children's book to describe the long-forgotten chapter of US history known as Mexican Repatriation, a boy and his family leave their beloved home to avoid being separated by the government. En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como...
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