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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest history of the National Football League's New York Giants highlights memorable games, summarizes seasonal triumphs and defeats, and features standout players such as Eli Manning"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, the singer and drummer of the Band details the history of one of the most influential groups of the 1960s. While their music evoked a Southern mythology with their beautifully crafted, image-rich songs, only their Arkansan drummer, Levon Helm, was the genuine article. This updated edition of his life story includes a new epilogue that covers the last dozen years of his life. From the cotton fields to Woodstock and from seeing Sonny Boy...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story of the first successful airplane flight. First Flight is a beautifully designed reader all about the Wright brothers - from their childhood fascination with flying to taking to the skies in the Wright Flyer, and beyond. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the Wright brothers, who changed our world by taking humans into the skies"
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights -- the years of injustice, the early battles, the defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers -- is an important civil rights issue of the present day. In this book, Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Mongolian
Description
In the Gobi Desert, a family of nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With all hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a far-off village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical ceremony.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic.
That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.
In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined.
This is the story of Huey and Bobby....