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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier and better. Learn about the accelerated pace of technology as things that were once science fiction become science fact"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The twentieth century ushered in a new world filled with a dazzling array of consumer goods. Even the poorest immigrant girls could afford a blouse or two. But these same immigrant teens toiled away in factories in appalling working conditions. Their hard work and sacrifice lined the pockets of greedy factory owners who were almost exclusively white men. The tragic Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in the deaths of over a hundred young...
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. In this conclusion to the March trilogy, he details the surpassing courage, sacrifice, and revolutionary non-violence that transformed American society in the 1960s.