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Author
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"While COVID-19 made it necessary for many workers to stay home when cases were high in communities, some people still needed to provide important services. Essential workers like paramedics, farmers, grocery store workers, delivery drivers, manufacturers, government leaders and many others are everyday heroes who continue to make sure the food, care, and information we need is still accessible." --
4) The friend
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With Mom too busy and Dad away much of the time, Belle finds companionship with a household employee who after each day's work takes Belle "hand in hand" to the beach.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg," but all is well in the end.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, American children could not take books home from the library. They were not even allowed to enter many libraries. Adults thought that children would ruin the library books with their dirty hands. They would never remember to bring library books back. And reading just wasn't very important for children, especially not for girls. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise! This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nonfiction picture book about the life and legacy of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.
"From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a young person, little Ruth recognized injustice in the world. She decided to work to make her country a fairer place--for everyone. From her career as a lawyer making the case for equality, right through to sitting as a judge on the Supreme Court, the highest in the land, Ruth spent her whole life fighting for what's right, and encouraging others to do the same."--Back cover
Presents an illustrated look at the life and career of United States...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 [mission]. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo 13 returned safely home? As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink, everything! Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about math, about the universe. From Katherine's...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Something special happened when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez met. Together, they fought for the rights of countless farmworkers. Side by side, inspiring hope, they changed history.
Algo especial sucedió cuando Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez se conocieron. Ellos lucharon juntos por los derechos de los campesinos. Lado a lado cultivaron esperanza, cambiando el curso de la historia.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who introduced the folk tales of her native island first to the children of New York and afterwards throughout the country.
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