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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a letter to his daughters, Barack Obama reflects on the traits of thirteen groundbreaking Americans, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington, and shares how children embody them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Using accessible dinosaur characters and clear language, Democracy for Dinosaurs explores key civic values on every adult's mind and helps show young readers how the things they do every single day can be guided by principles we must share in a democratic society: freedom, fairness, the rule of law, equality, respect for free speech, and respect for the truth. By modeling accessible ways to practice being a good citizen, children will understand...
7) Diwali
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
""Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in Pre-K through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to Diwali through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
An instant New York Times Bestseller!
Street photographer and storyteller extraordinaire Brandon Stanton is the creator of the wildly popular blog "Humans of New York." He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Humans of New York.
To create Little Humans, a 40-page photographic picture book for young children, he's combined an original narrative with some of his favorite children's photos from the blog, in addition to all-new...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
13) As good as anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A young white girl rides the bus with her father to the March on Washington in 1963--at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his "I Have a Dream" speech. She comes to see that Dr. King's dream belongs not just to Blacks but to all Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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