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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
xviii, 156 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys.
6) Bugs
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn how spiders make webs, meet nature's recyclers, find out how bees use honey, and spot the glowing insect. Introduces children to the exciting world around them.
8) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
9) Spy Runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake's mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake's dad, who went missing in...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.