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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
7) Mary Poppins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.
10) Mary's song
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the stillness of a Bethlehem stable, after the sheperds and animals leave, Mary sings a lullaby to her newborn son, enjoying the wonder and awe of his birth and pondering what his life will bring.
11) Streets of gold
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on a memoir written in the early twentieth century, tells the story of a young girl and her life in Russia, her travels to America, and her subsequent life in the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a kid, Mary Anning loved hunting for fossils with her father. One day, that hobby led to an unexpected discovery: the skeleton of a creature no one had never seen before! Mary had unearthed a dinosaur fossil, the first to ever be discovered. Her find reshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world and led to the beginning of a brand new field of study: paleontology. For the rest of her life, Mary continued to make astonishing finds and her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Poppins returns to 17 Cherry Tree Lane to visit the Banks family following a personal loss, and, with the help of Jack the lamplighter, brings joy and wonder back into their lives.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In a time when girls only wore skirts, Mary decides she wants to wear pants, scandalizing the entire town, in a book inspired by the trailblazing Mary Edwards Walker who was arrested many times for her clothing choices.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A historical portrait set against the backdrop of the antebellum South and the Civil War explores the remarkable friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker and confidante, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Christ's birth is seen through the eyes of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she undertakes the long journey to Bethlehem, where, in a crude stable, the baby Jesus is born, and angels, shepherds, and wise men welcome their Savior into the world.