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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of abolitionist John Brown, discussing his early opposition to slavery, his ill-fated raid on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, and the impact of his actions on the antislavery movement.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the leader of the Sioux nation, detailing his resistance against the United States government, particularly at the Battles of Killdeer Mountain and Little Bighorn, and highlighting his legacy.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aging inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin participates in the debate surrounding the American colonies' potential break from Great Britain, ultimately helping to write and signing the Declaration of Independence.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Young readers edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
69) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: famous journeys to the American Southwest and colonial New Mexico
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
70) Undaunted
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As a young scientist, Birute Mary Galdikas had a mission: To find and study the elusive orangutans of Borneo's rain forest to help protect this amazing and elusive species. Follow her story as she carries out an epic search and struggles to survive while studying the world's most endangered great ape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Talks about the history and sexism of the sport cycling. It goes from the invention of bikes, to present day mentioning trailblazing women athletes in cycling in the text"--
72) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S. D. Nelson."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Enormous Smallness is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E. E. Cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice...
76) Lewis and Clark
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When word leaks out that gold has been found on property owned by John Sutter in 1847, it changes his life and the course of American history forever.
