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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles the explorer Francisco Pizarro, from his early life to his expeditions to Peru, where he battled the indigenous Incan empire and claimed its land and riches for Spain.
8) The 57 bus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, a crime that focuses on the concepts of race, class, gender, crime, and punishment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of Catherine the Great, discussing her eighteen-year effort to form alliances and gain power, which culminated with her seizing the throne from her husband, Peter III.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the Vietnam War from many different perspectives including an American soldiers, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
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