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1) Becoming
Author
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,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Originally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become one of the most important and enduring works of modern American literature. Written with Zora Neale Hurston’s singular wit and pathos, this Southern love story recounts Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
A tale of awakening and independence featuring a strong female protagonist...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Language
English
Description
"Delve into this beautiful book. You'll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives." -Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden
How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble-a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the needs of all citizens, including those in rural America. New norms of growth, governance, and finance will emerge fostering a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable and inclusive society.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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An Amish Garden: A Year in the Life of an Amish Garden takes you to six working Amish gardens, from January through December. Matchless photos show the garden asleep, the Amish women putting together their orders for seeds, the preparation of the soil, parents and children planting, the emerging plants, the lush harvest, the food being preserved. This close-up of a world seldom seen shows how the seasons and Amish life work rhythmically together....
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
“Up from Slavery” is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856—1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable...
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the personal and professional life of Neil deGrasse Tyson, arguably the most famous astrophysicist in the modern world."--
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist. The story recounts Douglass's life from early childhood growing up in Maryland as a slave to his eventual escape to the North. Learning to read and write served him well, as he would eventually use it to document the civil injustices of slavery in 19th century America and to craft his impassioned oratories against it.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she returns to her childhood home in Kenya and sees that the whole forest around her village is being cut down, courageous and determined Wangari starts planting trees in her own backyard and ends up in the midst of a movement that is respected around the world.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the coach of the Indianapolis Colts and the first African American football coach to lead his team to a Superbowl victory concentrates on his religious life as well as his career in football.
15) Walden
Author
Series
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau volume Princeton Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932–2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet.
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
17) In our time
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
1925, 1953
Physical Desc
212 p.
Language
English
Description
In our time Ernest Hemingway - in our time is a collection of 18 short stories that were first published by Ernest Hemingway in 1924. Told his in trademark terse, laconic style, each story vividly immerses the reader--from the trenches and battlefields of WWI to the bullfighting rings and tabernas of Spain. Each sentence exposes Hemingway's talent, and foreshadows his literary significance.
This special edition features high-definition illustrations...
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the magnificent vistas on film. In the ever-changing light of New Mexico's landscape, they photographed the faces of the Pueblo People and helped to document their ancient, unimaginable world. They became witness to millennia of history. New Mexico's first inhabitants are believed to have descended from the Anasazi,...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
120 p.
Language
English
Description
This report examines a variety of socio-economic trends in Pennsylvania and makes recommendations about Pennsylvania's future. The study includes profiles of nine metropolitan areas including Erie, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton, and York. Funded by the Heinz Endowments and the William Penn Foundation. Description based on content as of: March 8, 2004.