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Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the the man who became the twenty-sixth president of the United States when President McKinley was shot in 1901 and who helped establish the national park system.
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Language
English
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights), to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Crippling asthma, a frail build, and grossly myopic eyesight: these were the ailments that plagued Teddy Roosevelt as a child. In adulthood, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition and was told never to exert himself again. Roosevelt's body was his weakness, the one hill he could never fully conquer--and as a result he developed what would become a lifelong obsession with athletics that he carried with him into his presidency. As...
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 26
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Theodore "Teedie" Roosevelt was small, had weak eyes, and frail muscles. But Teedie was also inquisitive, brave, and self-sufficient. Determined to overcome his childhood ailments, Teedie changed from a timid homebody into an adventurous man. He explored the Wild West, fought in the Spanish-American War, served as president of the United States, and helped build the Panama Canal.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, starting with his sickly childhood, which he overcame to become a robust outdoorsman, leader of the Rough Riders and later, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.
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Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple biography, with emphasis on his childhood, of the twenty-sixth president of the United States.
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