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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 860L
Language
English
Description
Provides a biography of Mercy Otis Warren, an unsung heroine of the American Revolution, who wrote patriotic plays and poems, including a history of the Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
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Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know....
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