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Author
Series
Young patriots volume 1
Publisher
Patria Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the aviation pioneer who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Before he made a name for himself as an acclaimed essayist and nature writer, David Gessner devoted his twenties to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Like his teammates and rivals, he trained for countless hours, sacrificing his body and potential career for a chance at fleeting glory without fortune or fame. His only goal: to win Nationals and go down in Ultimate history as one of the greatest athletes no one has ever heard of. --amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Forget the moon landing, the Nobel prizes, and the famous inventions. When the world's most brilliant scientists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Albert Einstein daydreamed instead of paying attention in class. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails in her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope. Kid Scientists tells these stories and more...
33) Abe
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In a brilliant work of historical imagination, Abe immerses the reader in the isolating poverty and difficult circumstances that shaped Abraham Lincoln's character. Marked by his mother's horrible death and the struggle to keep reading and learning in the face of his father's fierce disapproval, Abe persevered, growing into the complicated and empathetic man who changed the course of American history. Slotkin's Abe comes of age during a dramatic...
Author
Series
Young patriots volume 4
Publisher
Patria Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Provides a fictional account of the childhood of the woman responsible for the founding of the Girl Scouts of America.
Author
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in the exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth--women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. This book is the provocative story of a girl confronting...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ms. Fuller reads from her book, Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, an autobiography portraying the life of a white African girl growing up in the midst of the Rhodesian civil war in the 1970s. She describes growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father enlisted in the war on the side of the white minority government and was often away fighting, leaving Alexandra, her mother, and her sisters to take on the rigorous daily farm...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 1180L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the presidents of the United States describes each president's childhood, career, achievements while in office, and life after the White House.