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Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces Helen Keller and tells of her childhood struggles with deafness and blindness which led her to a successful career as a public speaker, writer, and champion of rights for the disabled.
19) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English