Elizabeth Partridge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author
Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight into the chaotic, passionate, and deadly three months of protests that culminated in the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Focusing on
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workers-all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. They were forced to live in incarceration camps, under hostile conditions, their futures uncertain. How did they endure it?...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches--and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of these three photographers."--
6) Moon glowing
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A squirrel, a bat, a beaver and a bear prepare for winter.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
8) True Stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable-and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by real-life...