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1) 11/22/63
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
2) Timequest
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When a time-traveller from the future journeys to the past to stop the assassination of JFK, the world embarks on an extraordinary new course of history.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The story of a young reporter who was the first to receive the news of President Kennedy's assassination at the U.P.I. office in Dallas, Texas, and how the tragedy affected the people of the United States and around the world.
6) The men who killed Kennedy: the definitive account of American history's most controversial mystery
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A reexamination of the assassination of President Kennedy featuring interviews with scientists, officials, & an Army colonel trained to kill the key assassination witnesses.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
This YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist is a breathtaking and dramatic account of JFK's assassination by NY Times bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER.In his award-winning young-adult book on the Kennedy assassination, James Swanson will transport readers back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. As he did in his bestselling Scholastic YA book, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
A historical narrative of the events surrounding the death of the 35th president is set against the backdrop of an escalating Cold War and describes the many political challenges Kennedy was facing before his assassination, in an account that also describes Lee Harvey Oswald's story and the events surrounding his death.
14) John F. Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Compass Point
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Description
Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President's motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda. --from...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Relive the assassination of President Kennedy, a pivotal moment in American history, through the words of people close to the tragedy, former heads of state, politicians, and more. Starting with the simple question, "Where were you?", their memories and interpretations paint a rich and moving picture of a hopeful nation torn asunder by grief.