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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George loved words. But George was enslaved. Forced to work long hours, he was unable to attend school or learn how to read. George was determined. He listened to the white children's lessons and learned the alphabet. Then he taught himself to read. He read everything he could find. George liked poetry best. While he tended his master's cattle, he composed verses in his head. He recited his poems as he sold fruits and vegetables on a nearby college...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cool idea with a big splash
You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for rockets, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy.
A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Growing up in a house full of brothers...
You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for rockets, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy.
A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Growing up in a house full of brothers...
9) Sally ride
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Sally didn't just like science-she loved it. From a young age, she dared to dream about becoming an astronaut at a time when she didn't see astronauts who looked like her. Ready to shoot for the stars? Meet Sally Ride-the first American women to go to space.
10) Simone Biles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Simone Biles joined the US women's gymnastics team to compete at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016. Along with her teammates, she sailed through her events to claim the gold medal in the team competition for the United States. She also took home three golds and a bronze in the individual events in which she competed. Though Biles follows an intense training routine, her schedule doesn't stop her from having fun. Learn all...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Before Vera Rubin discovered most of the universe, she was a girl who loved the night sky. She watched the Big Dipper circle the North Star. And when her eyelids grew heavy, she dreamed not about what she had seen, but about what she had not seen. She dreamed about the mysteries between the stars. As Vera grew older, she tried to uncover those mysteries. At her first conference, the male astronomers said her ideas were outlandish. They said they were...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Story tells how Margret and H.A. Rey escaped from Nazi-occupied France in 1940, carrying in their bicycle baskets the manuscripts that would become their beloved picture books about Curious George, the little monkey.
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English
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Katie Yamasaki's newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki. Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as serenity, surprise, and delight. Here, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle's Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska's notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Dolly Parton is a singer, songwriter, actor, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. After more than sixty years in the entertainment industry, Parton continues to work as an entertainer and activist--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In an era when the music world thought only Westerners could truly understand Western classical music, Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma broke barriers and defied expectations. Through his musical skill and exceptional passion, he showed that classical music is for everyone. With mentorships and impromptu street concerts, Yo-Yo Ma has headed programs to bring classical music around the world. This biography uses easy-to-read text, vibrant photographs,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Zaha Hadid was a British Iraqi architect, artist and designer, recognized as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her ideas caught people's attention. Not always the way she wanted. Zaha's critics insisted her designs couldn't be built. But Zaha knew better. She worked hard and challenged what was possible, breaking barriers and new ground, building her reputation as one of the most influencial architects of all...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This story reveals the life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, who was kidnapped from his tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted and renamed Carlos Montezuma, the young boy traveled throughout the Old West, bearing witness to the poor treatment of N
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