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Author
Series
March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
Author
Series
March volume 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
Author
Series
March volume Book 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
After the success of the Nashville sit-in movement, John Lewis' commitment to change through nonviolence is stronger than ever — but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place their lives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more...
7) Sisters red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Pennsylvania in a daring offensive to win the Civil War in a single campaign. They met the Union Army at a quiet crossroads town called Gettysburg, and engaged in the greatest battle ever fought on American soil. Three days of combat ended on July 3 with Pickett's Charge, a heroic assault by nine of Lee's brigades against the Union defenses on Cemetery Ridge....
10) The racers: how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the years before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. The Nazis poured money into the development of new race cars, and Mercedes-Benz came out with a stable of supercharged automobiles called Silver Arrows. Their drivers dominated the sensational world of European Grand Prix racing and saluted Hitler on their many returns home with victory. As the Third Reich...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task:...
12) Run: Book 1
Author
Series
Run (John Lewis) volume 1
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"To John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books/Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it's time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her on, becoming a hard-hitting journalist is a lot harder than Jo imagined. That's not all that's tough. Jo and her sisters--Meg, Beth, and Amy--are getting used to a new normal at home, with their dad deployed overseas and their mom, a nurse, working overtime. What does it take...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
19) Adolf Hitler
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
20) Up from the sea
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse about the March 2011 tsunami that sent Japan into chaos, told from the point-of-view of Kai, a biracial teenaged boy.