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From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize.
From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with C?ecile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
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1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela's Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A group of American and English expatriates are on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency.
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
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Anthropological volume no. 5
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English
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Chronicles the history of the Native Americans who have lived in Pennsylvania since their immigration from Asia and profiles the culture, government, and everyday life of the different tribes who settled in the area.
10) Freedom's stand
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Find something to believe in, Jamil renounced a life of jihad when he encountered the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. But his new mission as an itinerant health worker in the hills of Afghanistan is met with skepticism and even violence. Returning to Kabul, relief worker Amy Mallory is shocked by the changes in her organization, changes with dire implications for the women and children under her care. And concern for her former assistant Jamil...
11) Tops and bottoms
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Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
12) Congo dawn
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English
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Absolute power breeds absolute corruption. While former Marine lieutenant Robin Duncan is no stranger to corruption or conspiracy, she has always been able to tell the good guys from the bad. At first, her current assignment is no different: working on behalf of an international corporation to secure a valuable Congo mining region from the attacks of an insurgent killer. But as her security team tries to track down their target, Robin has to face...
13) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked
14) Rebecca's reward
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Daughters of blessing volume 4
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Bless
20) No kimchi for me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Yoomi hates stinky spicy kimchi--until Grandma makes kimchi pancakes for her!"--
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