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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
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Presents a comprehensive historical narrative that describes how and why ancient civilizations such as the Anasazi, Maya, and the Polynesian culture on Easter Island failed and fell into ruin and examines how lessons learned from the past can help in preserving the future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt
The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far...
3) While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl's rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history . . . and the turning point in a young girl's life. While the World Watched is a poignant and...
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