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(0)Albert Marrin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames. The factory was crowded. The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside. One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until September 11, 2001.
But the story of the fire is not the story of one accidental moment in time. It is a story of immigration...
But the story of the fire is not the story of one accidental moment in time. It is a story of immigration...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led...
3) Stalin
Author
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of the man who shaped the Soviet Union, from pre-revolutionary Russia to its evolution as a superpower and the descent of the "Iron Curtain."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the role of oil as an essential resource that drives the modern world explains its use in everyday products and tools while revealing how oil has influenced every aspect of today's economy, politics, and culture.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Describes life in the American West and the growth of the cattle industry, from the introduction of horses and cattle by the Spanish through the reign of the cattle barons in the late nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Theodore Roosevelt is one of America's liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt's far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation's place in the world and the life of every modern American.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the southwestern region of the United States from the sixteenth century to the Mexican War, examining the interactions between the Spanish, Indians, and American pioneers.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
An account of the life and times of the English buccaneer, Henry Morgan, from his birth in Wales through his daring exploits in the Spanish Main to his later years in Jamaica.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
An exploration of America's complex and enigmatic seventh president examines not only his accomplishments for the good of the people, but his "progressive" controversy that created broken Indian treaties and the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scottsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph McCarthy and his war hearings lured many Americans to the ideals...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as individuals....
