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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930's gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman" - a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author tells of her grandfather's experiences as a boy living in a lodge deep in the woods in Ontario, Canada. It relates how people and animals joined together to survive a forest fire and how it affected his life.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how library director RoseAleta Laurell lived for a week on the Dr. Eugene Clark Library roof to help raise over forty thousand dollars for its children's section.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The strength and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. permeates this picture book about the funeral of Dr. King in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1968. Quiet, yet affecting, THE CART THAT CARRIED MARTIN is a unique tribute to the life of a man known world-wide for his outstanding efforts as a leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Eve Bunting focuses on the funeral procession of Dr. King, beginning with the two men who found the cart to carry...