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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
“Up from Slavery” is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856—1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable...
3) John Adams
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Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Description
Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her sisters. Yet rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Atria books hbk. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws on intimate sources to offer insight into the relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, sharing details about an affair that was an open secret for decades among family insiders.
Author
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
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Description
"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
In a candid memoir, the former first lady discusses the frantic and fearful months after September 11th, her trip to Afghanistan, her advocacy on behalf of women in oppressed countries, her love of libraries, and what really happens in the White House.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 287 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Combines biography and George Washington's writings with the author's own insights and comments to assert that Washington's beliefs and values are especially important to remember as the 2012 election approaches.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 759 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A biography of America's first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin's diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father.
18) Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the silversmith who made the historic ride to announce the coming of British troops to Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Laura Bush discusses her youth in a segregated and traditional West Texas town, the tragedy that changed her life, her courtship and marriage to George W. Bush, and her roles as wife, mother, and public figure.