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1) The great fire

Author

Murphy, Jim

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

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An account of the Great Chicago Fire combines archival photographs and drawings with personal accounts by its survivors and historical documents.

2) Across America on an emigrant train

Author

Murphy, Jim

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only

Description

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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.

3) Walt Whitman: words for America

Author

Kerley, Barbara

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

2004.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.