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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
Publisher
Univision Communications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of three young children in three different countries. Despite their differences and distances from each other, they all share the same dilemma of losing a parent to another country and then struggling with their loss.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the reasons people migrated West, the routes they took, some of the difficulties faced by pioneers, the different ethnic and cultural backgrounds of the settlers, and the building of homes and towns.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the westward expansion of North America during the nineteenth century and the boomtowns that developed as thousands of settlers and immigrants migrated to these new frontiers.
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