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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls...
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Shares the author's journey to Olympic gold, including when she began her gymnastics training, how she dealt with naysayers who said she would never make it, and how she surrounded herself with a strong support system.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father--to abandon her art for a full six months. Will Annie's intention to join the Amish church be derailed by the attention of a handsome Englisher?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with archival photographs.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
8) Golda Meir
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Presents the biography of Golda Meir against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
10) Benazir Bhutto
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
""Presents the biography of Benazir Bhutto against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment."-Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.
11) Eva Perón
Author
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
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
World War II has erupted in Valka's homeland of Russia, and Valka is determined to help the effort. She's a good pilot so she eagerly joins an all-female bomber regiment. As the war intensifies and those around her fall, Valka must decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she once called home.
14) Shirley Chisholm
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the biography of Shirley Chisholm against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment.
15) The darkest hour
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.
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