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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Pub Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
A look at the early life of Israel's first female prime minster shares a story from her childhood in which, at age nine, she organized her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal Family - father, mother, Marion and her brother Albert - were trapped in Nazi German. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthal's were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps. Their story is one of the horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's childhood in World War II-era Shanghai, where the house built by his father provided comfort and safety to his family and a growing number of friends and strangers.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood
This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in...
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood
This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in...
Author
Series
Young patriots volume 2
Publisher
Patria Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
A biography focusing on the early years of the man who distinguished himself at the Battle of Tippecanoe and was later elected as the ninth president of the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's...
57) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
60) Uncle Andy's
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
Description
The author describes a trip to see his uncle, the soon-to-be-famous artist Andy Warhol, and the fun that he and his family had on the visit.
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