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(0)Deborah Wiles
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One night after a storm, environmental activist Rachel Carson takes her nephew Roger out for a walk by the sea. Includes notes about Rachel Carson, the story, and bioluminescence.
2) Kent State
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
3) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear."--Dust jacket flap.
4) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
10) Freedom Summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
12) Bobby
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles comes a compelling biography about Robert Kennedy. Americans claimed Robert Kennedy as one of their own. They called him Bobby. Lyrical and evocative text by Deborah Wiles (Countdown, Revolution, Anthem, and Kent State) brings the story of Robert F. Kennedy to life, with breathtaking illustrations by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Bobby is set in 1968, with a grandfather telling his grandchild about...