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3) John Hancock
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of John Hancock, one of the the wealthiest men in the American colonies and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
4) John Jay
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and political career of the man who was a delegate to the First Continental Congress, one of the authors of "The Federalist, " and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
6) Colin Powell
Author
Publisher
Abdo and Daughters
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of this American statesman, from his birth in Harlem, to his role as general in the Persian Gulf War, to his current position of secretary of state.
Author
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of former First Lady Hillary Clinton, from her "perfect" childhood and college years through her political life in Arkansas and Washington, D.C. to her election as senator from New York.
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Karol Wojtyla from his childhood and student years in Poland through his ordination as a priest, his election as Pope John Paul II, and his efforts to strengthen the Catholic Church.
11) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
12) Susan B. Anthony
Author
Publisher
Abdo and Daughters
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the nineteenth-century crusader who spent much of her life involved in the temperance, abolitionist, and women's rights movements.