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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging Germans to defy the Nazi government. Their belief that freedom...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Russell Freedman's thrilling account of a daring young French nobleman who helped bring victory at Yorktown and who became a lifelong friend of President Washington will fascinate young historians. When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a strong-willed nineteen-year-old who had never set foot on a battlefield. Although the U.S. Congress granted him an honorary...
Author
Series
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. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 from the arrival of the ships full of controversial taxed tea in Boston Harbor, through the explosive protest meetings at the Old South Church, to the defiant act of dumping 226 chests of fine tea into the harbor on December 16.
Author
Publisher
GodwinBooks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the building of the mighty Swedish warship the Vasa, how it sank not even a mile out of the harbor, the subsequent investigation, and how it was brought to the surface and restored more than three hundred years later.
10) Immigrant kids
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Washington's army nearly perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship. The army's supply system had collapsed and they were without supplies. But when the harsh winter ended, the soldiers had survived, and marched away from Valley Forge more determined than ever.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
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