Washoe County Library System

Publisher

Bridgestone Books

Pub. Date

[1996]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

2) Booker T. Washington: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Press

Pub. Date

1997.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the man who was born a slave and worked in salt mines as a youth but went on to become a national leader for the education of African-Americans and founder of Tuskegee Institute.

3) Frederick Douglass: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Press

Pub. Date

c1997.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the man who escaped life as a slave in 1838 and became a great anti-slavery orator and advisor to President Abraham Lincoln.

4) Mary McLeod Bethune: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Books

Pub. Date

[1997]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Follows the career of the black woman who spent her life educating and working to earn basic human rights for her people.

5) Sojourner Truth: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Press

Pub. Date

1997.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the abolitionist and women's rights activist who spent twenty-eight years of her life as a slave.

6) Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Davis, Lucile

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Books

Pub. Date

1998.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the staunch supporter of women's rights who helped plan the historic Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.

7) Harriet Tubman: a photo-illustrated biography

Author

Series

Publisher

Bridgestone Press

Pub. Date

[1999]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description