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(0)Karen Blumenthal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons of the day.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Only fity years ago, American society purported to believe that female bodies weren't able to play sports as well as men and that female brains could not understand math and science as well as men, despite overwhelming historical evidence that this was untrue. Determined lawmakers, athletes, and advocates worked to overturn this mode of thought with Title IX, a law which allowed women equal access to higher education and sports teams. This updated...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance and tragic deaths. But what was life really like for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the early 1930s? How did two dirt-poor teens from west Texas morph from vicious outlaws to legendary couple? And why? Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted...
