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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"A compelling look at the origins of and the ongoing unique relationship between humans and dogs ... [a] lively blend of science and history."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean?
Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution-and they, in turn, changed...
5) Rebel fire
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes discovers that his American tutor is hunting a notorious killer who was supposedly killed by the United States government, but who is apparently alive and well in Surrey, England.
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Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements-from the freedom of India from British rule to...
10) Nothing but sky
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Publisher
Flux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"-- Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This adventurous guide sheds light on the culture of violence and power in Asia during ancient times. Through vivid language and detailed sidebars, young readers will be drawn to all kinds of gory and unsavory topics, including foot binding for young women, the murderous Empress Wu, the deadly search for immortality, and the origins of acupuncture. This narrative grabs readers' attention and will allow them to explore history in a new, exciting way....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Covering one of the most famous and studied civilizations in history, this enthralling volume will make accessible to young readers the grim secrets of this former empire, including embalming the dead, ruthless pharaohs, and the building of the pyramids. Through illustrations, full-color photographs, and gruesome sidebars, students will discover a whole new exciting side to history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violent chariot races, evil emperors, and murderous weapons. This stirring volume delves deep into the dark, violent history of one of the world's most important ancient cultures. With vivid language and compelling photographs and illustrations, young readers will discover the disgusting habits and brutal traditions of this former empire, experiencing history in an exciting and engaging way.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This enthralling volume is sure to intrigue and excite young readers through a variety of gruesome and fascinating topics. Lethal swordsmanship, pillaging, human sacrifices, and more will thrill and horrify students with the help of dynamic sidebars and full-color photographs and illustrations. This book teaches young readers ancient history in a vivid and exciting way.
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Door of no return volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets… Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise and fall of alcoholic beverages and the temperance movement in the United States, Prohibition as a social experiment and its effects, both positive and negative, and Repeal.
18) Winterkill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
19) Death cloud
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murderand a diabolical villain.
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