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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the influential intellectual behind such books as "The Age of Reason" discusses his limited formal education, fervent support of American independence, and life-risking advocacy of history-shaping ideas.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An account of the life and times of the English buccaneer, Henry Morgan, from his birth in Wales through his daring exploits in the Spanish Main to his later years in Jamaica.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
10) Stalin
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of the man who shaped the Soviet Union, from pre-revolutionary Russia to its evolution as a superpower and the descent of the "Iron Curtain."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence,"--and committment to domestic terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's...
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