Doreen Rappaport
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Using quotes from some of his beloved speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in stunning collage art and vibrant watercolor paintings in this profound and important biography about beliefs and dreams and following one's heart. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his own words, will inspire and affect you, too.
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Using true accounts of Afraican Americans in the New World, the author puts readers in the shoes of eleven extraordinary individuals, and documents the many forms of slave resistance: subversion, uprisings, escape, poetry, religion, and song.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts--some chronicled in book form for the first time--Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the sculpture of the "Statue of Liberty" who came by boat from France to New York City and reassembled there. Uses a poetic form to provide details on her creation by the sculpture, the engineer, the newspaper publisher, the poet and many others. Also discusses its impact on immigrants coming from countries were freedom did not exist, and is accompanied by unique illustrations.
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[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"President Theodore Roosevelt is known as "the man with a plan," the "rough rider." His figure stands tall in American history; his legacy stretching him to larger-than-life proportions. But before his rise to fame, he was just "Teedie," a boy with ambitious dreams to change the world, and the conviction to see his stupendous imaginings brought to fruition. As an American president, he left an impressive mark upon his country. He promised a "square...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A collection of short, illustrated biographies of sixteen influential Native Americans, from Tisquantum, who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter of 1622, to Sherman Alexie, a contemporary poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Elizabeth Cady Stanton couldn't go to college, become a politician, or even vote. But she didn't let that stop her. She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men - and that included the right to vote.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A portrait of the trailblazing Supreme Court Justice describes the prejudices that challenged her pursuit of an education and a career in law, her achievements as the second woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court and her important contributions to high-profile cases.