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1) 1776
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
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Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...
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c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man argues that human rights are inherent. As such, they cannot be conferred on citizens by their governments because to do so would mean that these rights can be revoked by that same government. Paine further suggests that government is responsible for protecting the rights of men, and therefore, the interests of governments and citizens are united. Within this context, Paine argues that revolution is acceptable when the...
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[2021]
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What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? Those are the questions H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful...
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[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
11) War in Ukraine
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[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This title examines the war in Ukraine including the Russian Federation's recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics on February 21, 2022, Russia's subsequent invasion of Ukraine three days later, international reaction to the invasion including economic and political sanctions, and the resulting humanitarian crisis. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
12) North and South
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From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of two families -- the Hazards and the Mains. Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country at the threshold of a bloody conflict that would change their lives forever....
13) Pearl Harbor
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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"A highly-designed and illustrated (including graphic novel panels) overview the truths and lies about the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Why did the American Revolution take place? It was about more than the dates and details we all know: war elephants charging a fort in India and high-stakes gambles of bankers in Scotland, among other events, also played a part in the "real revolution" in the minds of the entire population of what would become the United States.
15) Vladimir Putin
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[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Examines the life of Vladimir Putin including his early life and education, his career as an intelligence officer in the Soviet Union's security agency, and his terms as prime minister and president of the Russian Federation"--Amazon.
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2024.
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
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"Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an...