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61) Delaware
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
62) South Carolina
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
63) Virginia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
64) Georgia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
65) Rhode Island
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
66) Massachusetts
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1790) is the name given to the unfinished autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, one of the most influential founding fathers of the United States of America. Unpublished during his lifetime, the first edition of 1791 was in French and based on an imperfect transcription. Franklin's grandson then published the book in English in 1818, but not only did he miss a portion, but he also made revisions to his grandfather's...
69) Mohandas Gandhi
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian statesman who led a nonviolent revolution to free his country from English rule.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A few years after the truce between the Union and the Alliance factions, Union lands a new settlement on the world called Gehenna, a colony consisting of 41,911 "non-citizen" clones and several hundred natural born men as supervisors. Gehenna seemed to have no intelligent native life-and therein lay the mistake. Calibans, dragon-like beasts, had a different sort of intelligence; and, as time passed, they began to twist the minds of the new generations...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
72) Burmese days
Author
Series
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 62
Language
English
Description
Honest and evocative, George Orwell's first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier.
Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman during the waning days of British imperialism.
One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An evocative historical novel set in 1930's Indochine, about the American wife of a Michelin heir who journeys to the French colony in the name of family fortune, and the glamorous, tumultuous world she finds herself in-and the truth she may be running from. On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor, an heir to the Michelin rubber fortune,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The diversity that helps define the United States today extends back to its earliest days as the thirteen original colonies. Young historians will learn about the varied inhabitants of these colonies with this compelling title. It also explains key ideas involving the thirteen colonies, such as why people decided to leave the Old World for the New, and how Virginia eventually became the first successful English colony. Fascinating fact boxes, engaging...
75) Sea lions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of sea lions, oceanic mammals related to seals. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why Japanese fishers respected sea lions"--
This book is a basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of sea lions, which are oceanic mammals related to seals. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why Japanese fishers respected sea lions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, [this book] reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently...
80) Colonial farms
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses colonial farms.