Karen Blumenthal
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds, but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Blumenthal tells the history of this famous...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Special Topics: Contemporary People in the News
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Special Topics: Contemporary People in the News
Description
Presents the life and career of Hilary Clinton, discussing her childhood in Illinois, her college and law school years, her life as First Lady, her time as a New York Senator, and her achievements as Secretary of State. --
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, struggle, and passage of Title IX, the law that allowed girls the freedom to pursue sports of their choosing, and the effects this law has had on society since its inception.
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance and tragic deaths. But what was life really like for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the early 1930s? How did two dirt-poor teens from west Texas morph from vicious outlaws to legendary couple? And why? Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on these lists
AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Famous Californians
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Famous Californians
Description
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.