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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
With her trademark humor and anecdotal style, the Newbery Honor Award-winner and preeminent biographer for young people turns her attention to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the lively, unconventional spokeswoman of the woman suffrage movement. Convinced from an early age that women should have the same rights as men, Lizzie embarked on a career that changed America
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed biographer writes the remarkable story of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's most influential and fascinating founding fathers, and his untimely death in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at the private side of Abraham Lincoln and at the circumstances surrounding his short, but memorable speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield. Includes text of the speech.
14) Stonewall
Author
Language
English
Description
A biography of the brilliant southern general who gained the nickname Stonewall by his stand at Bull Run during the Civil War.