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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Fascism.
"Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle--the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The spellbinding true account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity.
In the mid-to-late-nineteenth century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a fiery war was under way to be the first to light-and run-the world with electricity. Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of direct current (DC),...
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