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Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The kids who grew up to be president were like a lot of other children. Some struggled with schoolwork and got into fights; others pranked their teachers and infuriated their parents. William Howard Taft was forced to take dance lessons. Gerald Ford struggled with dyslexia. Teddy Roosevelt had a bedroom "museum" full of dead animals. "Kid Presidents" features 20 captivating true stories from the childhoods of American presidents, complete with lively...
2) Dreamers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
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Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Contemporary People in the News
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
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Describes the life and accomplishments of the United States Supreme Court justice.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Special Topics: Mindfulness Resources for Middle School Students
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Special Topics: Mindfulness Resources for Middle School Students
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"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
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Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night -- wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren't from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African American and South Asian American person to be elected to the vice presidency. While her nomination for this position was not unexpected, her rise to national prominence was one filled with unexpected turns and obstacles. After failing her first bar exam to become a lawyer, she tried again and passed. From there, she quickly rose through the...
12) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
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