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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Teen dance prodigy, breakout Dance Moms star, and judge on So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation presents her uplifting coming-of-age memoir about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world and in life. Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star--she just didn't know how soon that day would come. At just eight years old, she was cast on Lifetime's hit reality show Dance Moms and quickly won the hearts...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understand and fight back against the laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Counsels adolescents and their loved ones on juvenile legal protections, discussing such topics as how to respect and safeguard constitutional rights and surveying modern court cases that are redefining children's lives.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have...
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The American Revolutionary War was initiated following disputes between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Arguements over settlement, trade, and a variety of new laws in the New World created discontent that eventually sparked a war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The War of 1812 began as a disagreement over trade and shipping between Great Britain and the United States. Although neither side truly won, the United States gained a greater sense of national identity, setting the stage for its westward expansion.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglasss story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.
51) Cloaked in Red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.
52) Civil War
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Muckrakers discusses how in the early 1900s, Ida Tarbell and other investigative journalists brought about change by exposing the illegal tactics and unethical practices of corporations."--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This book opens in 2004, when four Latino teenagers arrive at a national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Oscar, Lorenzo, Cristian, and Luis were all born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they grew up in constant fear of deportation. Their high school - hundreds of miles form the nearest ocean, with no pool, little money to spare, and more than 80 percent of its students below the poverty...
56) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the Cold War through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, and songs dating from the period. Includes review questions.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.
59) Yes No Maybe So
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In 'Gifted Hands', he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three. Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts...