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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Many know Paul Revere by the infamous words, "The British are coming!" But did he really say that? Primary sources and infographics help readers learn the facts and the fiction behind Paul Revere's midnight ride"--
3) Paul Revere
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Paul Revere is commonly remembered as a Revolutionary War hero for his legendary Midnight Ride before the 1775 battes of Lexington and Concord. But Revere was also a famed silversmith, a practicing dentist, a resourceful entrepreneur, and an engraver of cartoons and paper money. This biography traces Revere's life from his humble beginnings as a French immigrant's son to his determined support of the rebel cause in the stormy years leading up to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the story of Paul Revere's historic ride from Boston to Lexington, and then to Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1775, to warn colonists of approaching British troops.
Author
Series
Newbery award volume 1951
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dignity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true.
7) John Hancock
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest president ever...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C., to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, to dozens of regional museums throughout the United States, no museum was off-limits to art thief Myles Connor. His IQ is at genius level, and his charm is legendary. Part confession, part thrill ride, "The Art of the Heist" is impossible to put down.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the Civil War battle of Morris Island, South Carolina, during which Sargeant William H. Carney became the first African American to earn a Congressional Medal of Honor by preserving the flag.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.
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