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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln's life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
2) Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn about how freedom came to the slaves in June 1865.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the African American struggle, from slavery to the present, to overcome racism and racist laws thereby becoming constitutionally and legally equal to other American citizens.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
From the early days of the antislavery movement, when political action by women was frowned upon, British and American women were tireless and uncompromising campaigners. Without their efforts, emancipation would have taken much longer. And the commitment of today's women, who fight against human trafficking and child slavery, descends directly from that of the early female activists. Speak a Word for Freedom: Women against Slavery tells the story...
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extraordinary extremes of wealth, progress, poverty, and despair. Dickens captures it all in plots that are by turns wildly comical, wonderfully melodramatic, and tragic to the point of tears. In his writing...
11) History is rich
Author
Series
History is volume Rich
Publisher
Honest History
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Journey through the rich history of money, capitalism, and the American economy in History Is Rich, a children's book by Honest History. Journey through the rich history of money, capitalism, and the American economy in History Is Rich, a children's book by Honest History. From the history of early capitalism through modern technology, explore and learn about the ways money is made and used in America. What do railroads and Amazon have in common?...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of Patrick's life, from his noble birth in Britain, to his being captured and taken to Ireland by a group of bandits, to the "dreams" that led him to convert the Irish people to the Christian faith. DePaola also retells several well-known legends, including the story of how Patrick got rid of all the snakes in Ireland.
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