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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
2) Ragtime
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English
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Welcome to turn-of-the-century America, where Scott Joplin's ragtime sets the beat and passionate vitality sets the tone. Historical figures such as J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and Evelyn Nesbitt mingle with the fictional characters of a Lower East Side Jewish peddler, a black musician from Harlem, and a rebellious young middle-class WASP in this classic novel.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As these two collections reveal, editorial writing and investigative reporting are among the most powerful and engaging forms of journalism. Veteran newspaper editor Gartner, working with the staff of the Newseum, the museum of news due to reopen in Washington, DC, in 2007, explores the importance of the newspaper editorial in American history. .
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
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Series
Troublesome Creek volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Learning from the same mentor in spite of their disparate personalities, Darcy Whitt falls for an unscrupulous lawyer who plots to steal her family's land while her sister-in-law, Cara, struggles with sudden isolation in her rickety cabin.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months....
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Beulah Land volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
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Between 1879 and 1895, a ruthless, poor-white farmer murders and marries his way to power, with which he challenges the Kendricks and the Davises, masters of the great plantation, Beulah Land.
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English
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Following the end of the Civil War, three young women flee a vindictive uncle, as they encounter a young pregnant slave who is looking for freedom, a Cherokee Scout who finds a place of refuge for them, and a group of war-weary soldiers who rescue them from a cotton field fire.
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Series
Copper Brown volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lilly Gray Corbett loves living on Troublesome Creek, but she would much rather play with her best friend than watch her little brother and the twins. Her mama, Copper, is often gone helping to birth babies, and Lilly has to stay home. When Aunt Alice sends a note inviting her to visit in the city, Lilly is excited to go, and Copper reluctantly agrees to let her. Later, when they hear the news that the train crashed, Copper and her husband, John,...
16) Home at last
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Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Beulah Land volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
The people of the great plantation of Beulah Land, including the Kendriks--its masters--a Union deserter, and freed slaves, determine to create a new way of life from the ruins of the Civil War.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When her nieces and nephews fall victim to their alcoholic father's mistakes, Susanna Hanby vows to rescue them. In 1875, Susanna Hanby travels to her sister's Ohio farm--but no one is there. Her sister's alcoholic husband claims that she has run off and dumped their six children at the county orphanage, and he doesn't care. Desperate to keep the family together, Susanna seeks help from her uncle Will in Westerville. Johann Giere is heir to a thriving...
19) Firehorse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
20) Terrible storm
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.