Chris Crowe
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2104]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.