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Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the bombings and the era in which all of humanity lived under the long, dark shadow.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st Square Fish edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the buscompany.
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
11) Raven rise
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Pendragon is trapped on Ibara, Alder returns to Denduron and reluctantly goes into battle again, and other Travelers face obstacles of various sorts as Saint Dane gains the power he seeks on Second Earth and makes his push to destroy and rebuild Halla.
12) Shame the stars
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Joaquín del Toro is in love with Dulceña and she is in love with him. But it's 1915, and trouble has been brewing along the US-Mexico border. As tensions grow, Joaquín is torn away from Dulceña. When his family ranch becomes a target, Joaquín must decide how he will stand up for what's right.
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