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Pub. Date
1982.
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"Jack London is a powerful witness to the political upheavals of the twentieth century and their terrifying contradictions. By turns impoverished laborer, renegade adventurer, war correspondent in Mexico, dedicated socialist, and writer of enormous worldwide popularity, London dramatized his ideas about modern societies through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. The Iron Heel, an astonishing political fantasy, anticipates a United...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents a visual guide to the people, battles, and events of America's war for independence, and includes explanatory text.
Become an eyewitness to the American struggle for independence, from the events that sparked the war all the way through to the signing of the Constitution. This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour through revolutionary America. Discover how American soldiers won battles against the great British Empire, plus see...
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 11
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.
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Beyonders volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
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"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note." --
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Rebel of the sands volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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"Amani is desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, and she's counting on her sharpshooting skills to help her escape. But after she meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army, she unlocks the powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself"--
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner...
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history--and of one family's indomitable courage under fire.
The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when...
17) Fall of Giants
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Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
19) Doctor Zhivago
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
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Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection.
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.