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2) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the African American scientist George Washington Carver, who not only put the peanut on the map, but was also one of the first advocates of recycling.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
11) Tiger Woods
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the champion golfer and describes how he practices his sport and encourages others to play.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
38 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend."--Dust jacket, front flap.
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
How did the clouds get their names? The story of Luke Howard and his interest in the weather with a modern day student's weather journals added in.
17) The good lion
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
19) Robert Downey Jr
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you know the first woman to run for president? The first woman to have a seat on the Stock Exchange? The first woman to own a newspaper? To speak before Congress? They were all Victoria Woodhull; this is her story.