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(0)Stuart A. Kallen
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the South Pacific during World War II, a group of Navajo Marines sent secret messages for the Allies using a code based on the Navajo language. Learn more about these heroes, whose unbreakable code helped win the war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Allied spies and secret agents worked behind the scenes to send messages and discover the enemy's plans. Learn more about these hidden heroes: a famous singer, a baseball player, a writer, and many others.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmlesslandfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth? Reducing, reusing, recycling, and upcycling are some of the answers. Learn more about the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He carried out the bloody assignment with nine point-blank shots to Guevara's body. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The only way we could win was to keep fighting for a long time...the only way we could win was by staying with it."-Cesar Chavez As the sun rose on September 8, 1965, in Delano, California, thousands of acres of ripe grapes hung heavy on the vine. But instead of harvesting the crop, Filipino farmworkers on nine large ranches laid down their tools and walked out of the vineyards in protest of their low wages and dangerous working conditions. The strike...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Featuring quirky horse-riding dance moves and an infectious electronic beat, an unlikely music video and its leading man made history in 2012. In December of that year, "Gangnam Style" reached one billion hits on YouTube-the most views ever. Seemingly overnight, the South Korean pop star behind the hit-Psy (Park Jae-sang)-became a household name. But Psy is just part of the story. Other South Korean pop sensations such as Girls' Generation, 2NE1,...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, doctors sounded the alarm. A mysterious new disease-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS-was spreading around the world. While many of the first AIDS patients were gay men, no one seemed to be immune from the deadly blood-borne disease. Researchers set to work to discover what was causing AIDS. They suspected a virus. Two teams of scientists-one in the United States and one in France-worked tirelessly to identify the virus...
11) The 1950s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1950s, including the effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, television, music, art, science, and technology.
12) The 1990s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
13) The 1980s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, daily lives, culture, religion, and conflicts of the Indians that lived in the northeastern part of what is now the United States, including the Algonquian, Abenaki, and Wampanoag tribes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes what it was like to be involved in the Underground Railroad, discussing life on the run, the lives of the trackers, conductors, and stationmasters, and the building of new lives in Canada.
16) Cocker spaniels
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) German shepherds
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Rockbottom Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English