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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad Thor
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged...
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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The fight for independence was not an easy one for the 13 colonies that became the United States. The Revolutionary War stretched on for decades, including not just battles such as Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Yorktown but also matters of diplomacy, economics, and politics. In this volume, young history fans will learn about the stories behind many aspects of the war, from the early beginnings of American dissatisfaction with Great Britain...
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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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Even well over a century later, there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings about the U.S. Civil War. In this detailed, entertaining book, students will learn about how and why the war started (including the key role of slavery), the leaders on both sides, the battles, and the aftermath--and the repercussions that continue even today. The book includes timelines focusing on the events in each chapter as well as the overall volume, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA. In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them....
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements-from the freedom of India from British rule to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
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Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...
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Big ideas that changed the world volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
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