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(0)Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power. This books also tells the stories of the young people who resisted the Nazi movement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Uses personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, to unveil the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as he can.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti and in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in America comes the page-turning, stunningly illustrated, and tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913. Bartoletti spins a story like few others--deftly taking readers by the hand and introducing them to suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Paul and Burns met in a London jail and fought their...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
?The Rights of Man.? What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights?not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...
