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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub Group
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the interesting and nontraditional careers of tattoo artists. It elaborates on the history of the tattoo, the evolution of the tools, and today's fascination with the art.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1st edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism.
Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the groundbreaking field of optogenetics, a biological technique that uses light to control cells in living tissue. Optogenetics helps researchers understand biochemical processes in live organisms and may someday be used to treat blindness, neural disorders, and other diseases."--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles notable LGBTQ figures and highlights their contributions to society and their community, including Kristina Vasa, Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, Glenn Burke, and George Takei.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's efforts to eulogize a beloved rabbi who is near death, while at the same time befriending a Detroit pastor who gives spiritual guidance to the poor and homeless, and describes how observing these two different religious leaders rekindled his own faith.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to radium while working factory jobs during World War I, describing how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a battle for workers' rights.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war...