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Language
English
Description
This masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a falliable human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood...a great and good man".
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 22
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution"--Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, the author paints a full portrait of Washington's life and career in the context of eighteenth-century America, richly detailing his private life and illustrating the ways in which it influenced his public persona.
5) Sweetie
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"George Washington's foxhound Sweetlips narrates the story of her master's transformation from farmer to Father of our Country"--
6) Betsy Ross
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the colonial seamstress who, according to legend, stitched the first American flag, after a design by George Washington.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America's legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author's skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive. Mary Higgins Clark's interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s, on...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--