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When former Congressman Mark Stedman throws in the towel on his presidential campaign, his only choice is to return to his home state and decide how to spend the rest of his life … until he meets Josiah Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer from Pennsylvania.
Stedman learns more from Josiah in a few hours than in his many years in office. He comes to the conclusion that someone like Josiah should be running the country. Not a career politician, but someone...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.
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I survived volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Paul's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul's help. This is Paul's chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With his father, the caretaker of Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery, off fighting in the Union Army, Fred Thorn endures the three-day Battle of Gettysburg and then helps his mother and grandfather bury around one hundred soldiers.
9) Vote!
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Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
11) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
"As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignements - responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter-with 59 cannons in tow.
In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston-225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat of remarkable ingenuity and determination and one of the most remarkable stories of the revolutionary war. In Henry and the Cannons the perils and adventure of his...
17) What was D-Day?
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 15
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After arriving in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1776, time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George Washington, "the man on the one dollar bill," to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that will c
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