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(0)Ann Malaspina
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1942, after Sam's Japanese neighbor, Keiko, is sent to an internment camp with her family, he makes a special effort to send her a gesture of friendship.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered about the events that laid the foundations of the United States of America? This title explores the tax policies and the colonies' frustrations leading up to the Boston Tea Party. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title also includes a timeline, glossary, Web links, index, and common core activities. Core Library is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes tooth traditions in many places around the world, such as celebrating losing a baby tooth, a tooth fairy collecting baby teeth, The Mouse Přez, the white tooth of the gazelle, and wearing human teeth for good luck.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1775, General George Washington was struggling to find a way to fight the British so that the colonies could be free from England. Phillis Wheatley, and African American poet, who herself had struggled to gain freedom, decided to write Washington a poem of encouragement. Ann Malaspina's inspiring story shows the life and times of these two brave people who did so much to lay the foundation of our country.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela's fight to end apartheid in South Africa is a riveting story of hardship, courage, and triumph. One of the great moral leaders of modern history, Mandela never gave up his struggle against racial oppression. Through Mandela's own words, primary documents, photographs, and engaging text, readers will learn about his early life in a small village, the stirrings of his political consciousness, his twenty-seven years of imprisonment for...
12) The jaguar
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
13) Yasmin's hammer
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, as two girls work hard all day to help support their family by chipping bricks into small pieces, older sister Yasmin seeks a way to attend school and learn to read so that she can have a better life one day. Includes author's note about conditions in Bangladesh, child labor, and how to help.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Traces India's struggle to gain independence, highlighting the life and leadership of Mohandas Gandhi whose tactics of nonviolent protest have become a goal of resistance movements worldwide.
17) The koala
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Vivian and Victor learn about verbs while they prepare for a race in the park. Concepts include: basic definition and usage of verbs; action and being verbs; past, present, and future tense; progressive tense; irregular verbs; main verbs; and helping verbs. Activities in the back help reinforce text concepts. Includes glossary and additional resources"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Nathan and Nicole learn about nouns while on a field trip to the Statue of Liberty. Concepts include: basic definition and usage of common and proper nouns; possessive nouns; compound nouns; plural and collective nouns; irregular nouns; and concrete and abstract nouns. Activities in the back help reinforce text concepts. Includes glossary and additional resources"--