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1) Also
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This moving story follows one family through generations of time spent together and shows readers that memories allow us to connect to the past, the present, and also to each other.
2) Pocahontas
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas was the daughter of a powerful Native American chief. She helped keep peace between the Native Americans and settlers from Europe. Learn more in Pocahontas, one of the titles in the Folk Heroes series.
3) Annie Oakley
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie Oakley showed audiences from around the world that she could shoot almost anything. She was one of the most respected and talented sharpshooters in history. Learn more in Annie Oakley, one of the titles in the
Folk Heroes series
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Davy Crockett was a popular American frontiersman. People told wild stories about his strength and skills. Some of these stories became legends. Learn more in Davy Crockett, one of the titles in the Folk Heroes series.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In his own special way, Johnny Appleseed helped the development of America by planting thousands of apple trees. These apple trees provided early settlers with food to eat. Learn more in Johnny Appleseed, one of the titles in the Folk Heroes series.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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An inspiring story of Zheng Yi Sao, the real-life pirate queen who took control of her life — and the South China seas — in the early 19th century.
The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this loving tribute to Virginia Lee Burton, the New York Times best-selling creators Sherri Duskey Rinker and John Rocco pay homage to the storied life of one of the most beloved creators in children's literature. Everyone in Folly Cove knows Virginia Lee as "Jinnee." With her magical wands she can draw whatever she imagines, but for her sons Aris and Michael, she draws the most wonderful characters of all: BIG MACHINES with friendly names like...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
If Rube's inventions are any indication, "normal" means something very different in the Goldberg household. For Rube, up is down, in is out, and the simplest path to accomplishing an everyday task-like brushing his teeth or getting dressed-is a humorously complicated one. Follow Rube as he sets out on a typical school day, overcomplicating each and every step from the time he wakes up in the morning until the time he goes to bed at night.
This...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming, "beautifully crafted" picture book that celebrates the work of Mister Rogers and carries on his legacy of kindness (Booklist, starred review).
Mister Rogers is one of the most beloved television personalities of our time, but before he was the man who brought us Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was just little Freddie Rogers. Though he was often sick and had trouble making friends as a child, his mom and grandfather encouraged...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Meena Harris debuts with an empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of her aunt, US Senator Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer, and policy expert Maya Harris.
One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard into a playground!
This is the uplifting tale of how the author’s aunt and mother first learned...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the day before the big parade. Alta can only think about one thing: Wilma Rudolph, three-time Olympic gold medalist. She'll be riding on a float tomorrow. See, Alta is the quickest kid in Clarksville, Tennessee, just like Wilma once was. It doesn't matter that Alta's shoes have holes because Wilma came from hard times, too. But what happens when a new girl with shiny new shoes comes along and challenges Alta to a race? Will she still be the quickest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers, bead twirlers, and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade. But then came the rising Mississippi-and a storm greater than anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real garbage man,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya and other students in Ms. Hopkins class study techniques used by Thomas Jefferson as they grow pea plants and compete to see whose will produce a bowl full of peas first. Includes an afterword about Jefferson.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Look at that giant statue! What did this person do to earn his own monument in Washington, DC? Join Mr. Williams's class on a field trip to the Lincoln Memorial to find out. Ranger May gives the students a tour, tells them about the Civil War, and talks about how President Abraham Lincoln's ideas still matter to all of us.
18) Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nikki Grimes offers a glimpse into the inspiring lives of Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman, with breathtaking illustrations by Michele Wood!
What if Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sat down over tea to reminisce about their extraordinary lives? What would they recall of their triumphs and struggles as they fought to achieve civil rights for African Americans and equal rights for women? And what other historical figures played parts in their...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communities, based on a real bookmobile program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Luis's favorite day of the week is Monday, the day the bookmobile comes to his neighborhood. In Villa Nueva, sad stories can gather like dark, stormy clouds. But at the bookmobile, Luis hears stories that burst with life, laughter, and color. Maybe today will bring a song or a puppet show! He might...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
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