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Author
Publisher
Shoemaker & Hoard
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Finding a trove of photographs from the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the author chronicles the life of a Harvard research assistant and presents a recreation of the cultural life of blacks in nineteenth-century Boston.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence....
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Esmeralda finalmente se desprende y supera la intensa lucha con so madre sólo para caer subyugada por Ulvi, un sofisticado hombre turco mucho mayor que ella. Así descubre que la pasión amorosa también puede convertirse en una prisión. Su viaje de liberación y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, y conduce hasta su triunfante graduación de Harvard.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he did not live as a recluse but received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with clear-headed wisdom and remarkable beauty of style.
8) Stronger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
11) John Adams under fire: the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Author
Publisher
Christian Science Publishing Society
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
This biography of an influential 19th-century woman follows Mary Baker Eddy from obscurity to her enormous fame as an eminent thinker and religious leader. From her Puritan upbringing, throughout her life of compassion for others and devotion to God, you can watch her development as an insightful student of the Bible and her rediscovery and practice of healing in the name of Christ Jesus. It also tells of her work to support and spread the practice...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From his humble boyhood as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains, reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, and dreaming of new inventions, Thomas Edison went on to create the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes ... Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was ... [a] powerful influence on the great writers of the era--Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them--she also published some of their earliest works ... Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society...
19) The flag maker
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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