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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, a movement was set in motion that led to other nonviolent boycotts, marches, and walks--resulting in the civil rights movement and major social changes throughout the nation.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Sibert Medal for Nonfiction
Children's Awards: Sibert Medal for Nonfiction
12) An Indian winter
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Recounts the history of the vaqueros in the Spanish New World who mastered the art of cow herding and taught it to the inexperienced settlers of the American West three hundred years later.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.
16) Buffalo hunt
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.
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