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61) The Capitol
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the Washington, D.C. Capitol complex buildings, including the United States Capitol building, Senate and House of Representatives office buildings, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress buildings, and others.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes short biographies of Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt.
66) The White House
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press/Primary Source
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west, including immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.
74) I have a dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the text of the famous speech given on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by Martin Luther King, Jr., complemented by paintings illustrating the ideals the civil rights leader described.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts how, in 1818, Franz Gruber, the church organist in a small town in Austria, wrote the music to "Silent Night" to accompany a poem by Father Joseph Mohr, so that there would be music for the Christmas Eve mass.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A detailed account of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest war fought on American soil, plus an examination of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and culture of a group of African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, offering details on the community and their traditions.
Author
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of America's great outdoors and discover the beauty and diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case in California in 1947.
