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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Bill Gates was born in 1955, no one owned a personal computer. Gates envisioned what a computerized society could be and he set out to lead the way, building the Microsoft empire with single-minded drive. Today, the man who made his fortune by putting the whole world in touch now hopes to improve lives around the planet.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.
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