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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Narrator Fred Berman brings gravitas to the events of this memoir while still creating a voice for Michael [Bornstein] that sounds young and vulnerable. Berman also excels at the use of Yiddish, Polish, and German accents where needed to create a sense of the time and place." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a preface read by both authors with an afterword read by Michael Bornstein. A bonus conversation with the
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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Describes the author's years as a member of the Islamic faith, discussing the varied questions she fielded from others regarding diet, dress, prayers, and holidays, while providing an introduction to Islam that examines its traditions and beliefs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland,...Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There's warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective...
12) Nanotechnology
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines the current status of the field of nanotechnology, including recent work and new technological developments, and discusses noted individuals and controversial issues.
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the controversy surrounding vaccinations, discussing how vaccines changed history, vaccine errors that damaged public trust, possible links with autism, and the resurgence of old diseases due to reduced vaccination.
14) Eva Perón
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Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Presents the biography of Eva Peron against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boys, let us get up a club.With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.This is the story of how a secret terrorist...
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