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Author
Publisher
BiG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, hissister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces. Based on real events in Mozart's childhood"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 900L
Language
English
Description
"Misty Copeland is one of the most famous dancers in the world. But before she was dancing for millions of fans, Misty was just a young girl who loved ballet, even though she didn't look like the typical ballerina. Learn how she made it all the way to the top in this exciting level 3 biography!"--
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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
Ã2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist...