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(0)Veda Boyd Jones
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 17
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Henry Lankford survives the biggest Cincinnati flood, then must face the threat of cholera.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, and her family are forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee and travel the "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the western Indian territory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Set in 1903, eleven-year-old immigrant Maureen Stevenson is ready to become a U.S. citizen--just as soon as she solves the case of who's stealing artwork from her employer's mansion.
11) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the multitalented leader who wrote the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, discussing his childhood, education, involvement in colonial politics, writings, and career as a statesman.
Author
Series
The American adventure volume 48
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Polio strikes one of the Harrington children, while everyone awaits the news of an older brother, hoping he will return safely after the war.
13) John F. Kennedy
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of our thirty-fifth president.
18) Tara Lipinski
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publisher
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the success story of figure skater Tara Lipinski, who at fourteen-years-old became the youngest National Champion and World Champion in the history of women's figure skating.
20) Ewan McGregor
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Scottish-born actor who has become well-known in the United States because of his role in the recent popular movie, Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace.