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Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and lasting legacy of politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and discusses how his crusade for gay rights led to open hostility that ended in 1978 when he was assassinated by his San Francisco Board of Supervisors rival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
5) Liars, Inc
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Max, his girlfriend Parvati, and best friend Pres form Liars, Inc., expecting that forging notes and lying for their peers will lead to easy cash, but when Pres asks Max to cover for him, it may be a fatal mistake.
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