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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
On June 13, 1971, the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, they revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed the relationship...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st Roaring Brook Press ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of our nation, complete with soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real facts, is presented in a narrative tale filled with little-known details and anecdotes.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin welcomes young listeners to the thrilling, tragic, and downright wild historic adventure of America’s westward expansion in Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion.
1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific Ocean and pens...
1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific Ocean and pens...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War.
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Beacon of Freedom Award Winner
Get the feeling something big is...
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Beacon of Freedom Award Winner
Get the feeling something big is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
WARNING: DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR.
Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened-till now. Time is getting twisted, and it's up to two kids to straighten things out.
Abraham Lincoln may have returned to history books, but other historical figures saw what he did-and now they know they can escape...
Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened-till now. Time is getting twisted, and it's up to two kids to straighten things out.
Abraham Lincoln may have returned to history books, but other historical figures saw what he did-and now they know they can escape...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners an American history lesson they'll never forget in the fun and funny King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution.
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
What...
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
What...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Squarefish edition.
Language
English
Description
"Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn't one of them. What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, ancedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, hundreds of soldiers plunged into battle "naked as they were born") close-up narratives filled with little-known details, lots of quotes that capture the spirit and voices of the principals ("If need be, I will...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The acclaimed team that brought us 1968 turns to another year that shook the world with a collection of nonfiction writings by renowned young-adult authors.
"The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights—not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was
19) True Stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
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
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