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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The true story behind the acclaimed movie 12 Years a Slave, this book is based on the life of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
Solomon Northup awoke in the middle of the night with his body trembling. Slowly, he realized that he was handcuffed in a dark room and his feet were chained to the floor. He managed to slip his hand into his pocket to look for his free...
3) Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development from a club to a huge money-making machine powered by the powers of fear and hate and of the folklorist...
4) Hood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isabelle learns that she is the daughter of Robin Hood when her mother, Marien, sends her from their priory to get an urgent message to her father, aided by the Merry Men.
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