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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 720L
Language
English
Description
Because three-year-old Albie, who would one day be known as Albert Einstein, has never spoken his concerned family takes him to a doctor who recommends a series of activities that might stimulate him to talk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
Author
Language
English
Description
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the...
65) Theodore
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
A simple biography, with emphasis on his childhood, of the twenty-sixth president of the United States.
Author
Series
Astrotwins volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Young Mark Kelly and his brother and friends decide to build a rocket over the summer when their constant bickering starts to annoy their grandfather in this middle-grade novel based on the NASA astronauts' real childhoods"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of the famous physicist describes how, as a young genius growing up in the home of an apothecary, he read everything he could, built handmade machines, and performed chemical experiments that seemed magical.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Pub Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
A look at the early life of Israel's first female prime minster shares a story from her childhood in which, at age nine, she organized her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker...
76) Ronald Reagan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fortieth president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.
79) Small memories
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A personal account by the late author traces his youth in Lisbon with his parents, marked by frequent visits to his wise grandparents in the village of Azinhaga, his older brother's tragic early death, and his initial encounters with literature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they've uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk?s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora?s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia?s struggle...