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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of extinguishing the Jews through the Final Solution, escaped into the mountains after the war was lost for Germany. This is the true story of how agents from Israel were able to track Eichmann down 16 years later in Argentina and finally bring him to justice.
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2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
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After the Nazis occupy all of Norway, they gain access to a weapon that could end the war: a nuclear bomb. With the discovery of the plans for a bombing, the Allies aim to destroy the power plant that holds the ingredients. But when plans fail, a group of Norwegians must take over the plans and commit the greatest act of sabotage of World War II.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert,...
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.
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c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
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Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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"Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
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"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
