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Language
English
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Crawford County, Pennsylvania features a rural landscape of small towns and family farms scattered among forested hills, remnant glacial lakes, and vast wetlands. The county also has a remarkable collection of historically significant metal truss highway bridges, most of them locally owned. These bridges are important but highly endangered historic resources, types once common but becoming scarcer each year. This publication, prepared as mitigation...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Capturing the courage of a little girl facing racism and hatred alone, the true story of Ruby Bridges reveals how she helped shape American history as the first African American child sent to first grade in a white school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
In this explosive sequel to The Firm, Mitch, a partner at the largest law firm in the world, is asked for a favor by a mentor in Rome that plunges him into a sinister plot that has global implications and once against places everyone he holds dear in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!'--it's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.