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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Themes: Business Leader, Biography, innovation, Elon Musk is an entrepreneur with a unique vision. He builds businesses with the goal of solving our world's biggest problems. The books and video games he loved as a child inspire him to innovate. Though some people think his ideas are unconventional, Musk continues to work toward his vision of a better future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
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Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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***Three starred reviews!***
Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with his next thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War I. Illustrated throughout with incredible photographs and published on the 100th anniversary of the Holzminden escape!
At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this photo-illustrated middle-grade nonfiction book, Brenda Guiberson explores the stories of six individuals who have disappeared mysteriously throughout history.
Jimmy Hoffa, Barbara Follett, Amelia Earhart, D. B. Cooper, two young royal princes-they all disappeared. Throughout history, individuals have gone missing without a trace; some of these disappearances haunt us.
In this companion to Disasters: Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On June 21, 1964, three young men were killed by the Ku Klux Klan for trying to help black Americans vote as part of the 1964 Fredom Summer registration effort in Mississippi. The disappearance and brutal murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner caused a national uproar and was one of the most significant events of the civil rights movement.
The Freedom Summer Murders tells the tragic story of these brave men, the crime that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run...
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