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(0)Carla Killough McClafferty
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"No picture accurately resembled him in the minute traits of his person . . . there was an expression of his face that no painter had succeeded in taking."-London's New Monthly Magazine in 1790
George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. Worse...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment-fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change football or leave the field. Football's defenders managed to move the chains. Rule changes and reforms after 1905 saved the game and cleared the way for...
3) Tech titans
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and accomplishments of six leaders in the world of computer technology.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately two hundred artists and intellectuals - all enemies of the new Nazi regime. As a volunteer for the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry's mission was to help these refugees flee to safety, then return home two weeks later. As more and more people came to him for assistance, however, he realized the...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. The life of the first president has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people of color he owned--the people who sustained his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there--have not. Using fascinating primary source material and photographs of historical artifacts, author Carla Killough McClafferty sheds light on the lives of several of the men and women enslaved...