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21) Chester Arthur
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to Chester Arthur including his early political career and key events from Arthur's administration including improvements to the US Navy, and the Pendleton Civil Service Act. 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.
22) Thomas Jefferson
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A biography of Thomas Jefferson--patriot, president, and author of the Declaration of Independence.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson including his military service, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including the Civil Rights Act, the Vietnam War, and the Voting Rights Act. 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This biography introduces readers to William H. Harrison including his military service during the War of 1812; his early political career as governor of Indiana Territory, US congressman, Ohio state senator; and Harrison's term as the shortest presidency in US history. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
27) Presidents
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Includes bibliographies and index. Contains analyses of the presidents and their administrations on domestic and international affairs from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.
28) Abraham Lincoln
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Abraham Lincoln including his military service, early political career, and key events from Lincoln's administration including the American Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and his assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information." -- Publisher's website.
29) Thomas Jefferson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to Thomas Jefferson including his early political career and key events from Jefferson's administration, including the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act. 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.
32) George W. Bush
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
This biography introduces readers to George W. Bush including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina. 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to James A. Garfield including his early political career and key events from Garfield's administration including his surprise nomination, the Star Route Scandal, and his assassination by Charles Guiteau. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
34) Gerald Ford
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
This biography introduces readers to Gerald Ford including his early political career and key events from Ford's administration including the Watergate scandal, pardon of former President Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War. 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.
35) Grover Cleveland
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included." -- Publisher's website.
37) Andrew Jackson
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the seventh president from his childhood in South Carolina, through his military career in the War of 1812 and his family life, to his legacy as America's first populist president.
38) William McKinley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to William McKinley including his early political and key events from McKinley's administration including the Spanish-American War, the expansion of US territory to include the Hawaiian Islands, and his assassination by Leon F. Czolgosz. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
39) James K. Polk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to James K. Polk including his early political career and key events from Polk's administration, including the Oregon Treaty, the Mexican War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This biography introduces readers to Franklin D. Roosevelt including his early political career and key events from Roosevelt's administration including the Great Depression, the New Deal, Pearl Harbor, and World War II. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library...