Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Uses personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, to unveil the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the disaster that struck Ireland from 1845 to 1850. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, destroying the staple food of the Irish people.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
11) The flag maker
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
15) Kids on strike!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove working children to strike, from the mill workers' strike in 1834 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the children who marched with Mother Jones in1903.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as he can.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014], ©2014.
Language
English
Description
A young readers' companion to the ten-part documentary series outlines provocative arguments against official American historical records to reveal the origins of conservatism and the obstacles to progressive change.