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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1833, the new Mexican president, Santa Anna, wanted to have more control over Texas. American colonists outnumbered Mexican-born people in Texas. Santa Anna wanted to stop more Americans from coning to Texas and he made strict laws for the region. But American and Tejano, or Mexican-born, colonists wanted independence from the Mexican government. Through a bloody Texas Revolution, the independent Repbulic of Texas was born.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph--a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. Return From Siberia chronicles not only the Simon family's relationship to each other and the past, but also the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The famous journey of Tom Sawyer's friend Huck Finn, along the Mississippi River.
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together, they travel by raft down the Mississippi, tumbling in and out of amazing adventures -- from a floating house to a funeral, a shipwreck to a circus -- and experience some of the strange ways of people in the Deep South.
Author
Series
Special publication volume no. 43
Publisher
California Historical Society
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Formats
Series
Publisher
Shelter Harbor Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Combining engaging text with captivating images and helpful diagrams, renowned science writer Tom Jackson guides readers through the history of Engineering in the 7th installment of the groundbreaking PonderablesTM series.
71) The pioneers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
An account of the westward movement of the pioneers which began in 1841, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.
72) The gamblers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1978
Language
English
Description
"This volume ' examines the role of gamabling on the American fronter: among the Indians, on the rivers, in the mining camps, and in the boom towns ... The book is packed with interesting anecdotes, and covers the race track and boxing ring, lotteries and steamboat racing, as well as all of the traditional card and table games. The text is arresting with well-placed illustrations.'" Libr J.
73) The great delusion: a mad inventor, death in the tropics, and the utopian origins of economic growth
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should - even that they must - expand in wealth indefinitely? In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaelle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate...
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