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Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling"--
82) War and peace
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a new translation of the classic reflecting the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, in a book accompanied by an index of historical figures, textual annotation, a chapter summary, and an introduction.
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, visit Plymouth Plantation to see how the Pilgrims lived and to celebrate a big feast with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
89) The Civil War
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
History of US volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless,...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Mission of San Francisco de Asis from its founding in 1776 to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the Ohlone, or Costanoan, Indians.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
99) Doctor Zhivago
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...
100) A medieval feast
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the preparation and celebration of a medieval feast held at an English manor house entertaining royal guests.
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