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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many months later. Here is the incredible...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating collection of historical vignettes, author Martin W. Sandler restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time. Though barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Ziryab, an eighth-century black slave whose influence on music, cuisine, fashion, and manners still reverberates, to Cahokia, a 12th century city north of the Rio Grande, which at its zenith contained a population...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories, this book gives an in-depth account of their lives before and during their imprisonment, and after their release.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of immigration to America through the voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island, from its opening in 1892 to the release of the last detainee in 1954.
8) Civil War
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Explores the true story of the ship, Whydah, which began its sailing life as a slave trade ship in 1716 piloted by Captain Prince, then was overtaken by the pirate Black Sam Bellamy and used as his flagship. The Whydah then sank off the coast of Cape Cod with all its treasure, but its ruins were found again in 1984 and became a source of wealth and great information about the history of pirates.
11) Immigrants
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Over 100 photographs and illustrations bring the story of those who immigrated to the United States to life.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1869, Alfred Beach wanted to build America's first air-powered railway below New York City, but Boss Tweed, powerful politician and notorious crook, opposed. Working under night cover, Beach and his crew carved a three-hundred-foot tunnel beneath a department store. Before long, the project was discovered and the public raved about its potential. But no further tunnels were ever built. What happened to Beach's railway, and where is it now?
14) Inventors
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Find out how great inventors in our history came up with ground-breaking discoveries that changed life as we know it. Over 100 photographs and illustrations from the Library of Congress vividly capture the spirit of the great thinkers who, by exploring their imaginations, brought these exciting inventions to life.
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, ... archival material, and vivid storytelling, [the book] dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the daily lives of Southern sharecroppers, Dust Bowl farmers in the Midwest, Western migrant workers, and families scraping by in Northeast cities. Using their cameras as weapons against poverty and racism—and...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Abraham Lincoln and details his accomplishments both before and after he became the president of the United States. Features full-color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout.
20) Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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