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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to Herbert Hoover including his early career as a geology engineer, his early political career and key events from Hoover's administration including the Great Depression. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a year in American history that still resonates today, 1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America tells the story of a battered nation fighting for its own future amid the depths of the Great Depression.
At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their...
10) Herbert Hoover
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Offers a brief introduction to the life of President Herbert Hoover, discussing his efforts to help those in need, his reaction to the Great Depression, and his efforts to reverse the Depression's effects.
12) Herbert Hoover
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Chronicles the life of Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the United States, focusing on his term in office, during which time the stock market crashed, and describing his attempts to stabilize the starving economy.
13) Herbert Hoover
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a biography of the thirty-first president of the United States, from his childhood through his years of public service.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
15) Herbert Hoover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, millionaire businessman, statesman, humanitarian relief worker, and president during the Great Depression.
16) Herbert Hoover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A biography of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.