Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
7) Hitler Youth
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth, whose organized propaganda marches throughout Germany helped the Nazi Party grow in strength. By 1939, it is estimated that more than seven million boys and girls belonged to the Hitler Youth.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is the riveting and often chilling tale of a generation of young...
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is the riveting and often chilling tale of a generation of young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups.
"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up ... But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." -Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933
By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Boys, let us get up a club.
With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.
This is the story of how a secret terrorist group...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
11) Kids on strike!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
13) The flag maker
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as he can.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl shares her ballet dancing with her dying grandmother and the grandmother shares memories of her family's immigration from Poland and of dancing with the girl's grandfather.
20) Silver at night
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancee.