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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
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English
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"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...
7) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
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China Education Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Introduction: The photos in this book were taken in 1979. Why 1979? From 1949 when the new government came to power by revolution and civil war China was ruled by radical policies that roiled the country with one violent movement after another. Chairman Mao died in 1976; in 1979 a new ruler turned away from the policies of class warfare and central planning. The doors to the outside world opened, foreign direct investment was welcomed and a new sector...
10) 1910s
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Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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War and Revolution-courage and carnage in the struggles to preserve an old order and create a new world. Votes for Women and Homes for heroes. Silent films and raucous jazz as life steps into the surreal.
11) 1970s
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Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Published in 1999 and part of a brillinat series of 20th century decades,this book compiles the most significant images and facts of the 70s, captured by the photographic camera, produced by the Hulton Getty Picture Collection Limited.
12) 1920s
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Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The Jazz Age. Silent films and strident music. Outrageous fashions and inventions. Revolutions in transport, economic chaos and the first chill winds of Fascism and the Depression - in hundreds of moving and shattering images.
13) 1980s
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Series
Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The Right is might. Glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union. Aids from Africa, aid to Africa. Chernobyl's ghastly warning and environmental concern. Push-button wars around the world. TV soaps and serial killers...
14) 1960s
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Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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The Swinging Sixties, a maelstrom of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Pop and the Pill, the Maxi and the Mini, the Stones and the4 Beatles, Sharpeville, Dallas, Vietnam--the agony and the ecstasy, captured as only the camera can.
15) 1950s
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Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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A world in the icy grip of Cold War. The shadow of the Bomb. The Little Rock and Notting Hill, the Hungarian Uprising, Suez and Cypress. The conquest of space--all the triumph and tragedy of a tense and violent age.
16) 1930s
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Series
Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Old dreams turned to dust, and new dreams turned into nightmares. The nations of Europe marched to war. Strikes and lockouts, 'talkies' and skyscrapers, dictators and New Deals-in a unique collection by the world's finest photographers.
17) 1990s
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Series
Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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New heroes and new villains emerge as the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union come tumbling down. The Free Market marches on. Truth and reconciliation in South Africa. Junk food and junk bonds. The end of the Millennium.
18) 1900s
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Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Industrial rivalry and race for profit. Organized labour and powerful machines. Golden days and dazzling splendour as an era nears its end. Here are beauty and squalor that the world would never see again.
20) 1940s
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Series
Publisher
Getty Images
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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A divided decade-the world at war, its triumphs and tragedies, victories and victims. Peace, rest, recovery and rebuilding. Here are new hopes and new problems-the tumult of history through the eye of the camera.