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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
8) Ruth's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1986
Description
A retelling of the Bible story in which Ruth follows her mother-in-law Naomi from the country of Moab to the land of Judah.
13) China
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
An introduction to the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the most populated country in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
The story of Sister Catherine Labouré who was visited by a vision of the Blessed Virgin and told to create a medal in devotion to her. This book shows what happened, also telling about Catherine's second mother, about obstinate old John-- who refused to have anything to do with the Medal-- and about how Sister Catherine kept her big secret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 28
Description
The coastal people of what will be California, Arizona and New Mexico are struggling with the changing world around them. As the mammoths disappear, the seer Sunchaser must decide whether to shelter a beautiful stranger and risk angering the Spirits further.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 44
Description
A tale of the earliest people on the North American continent, set two millenia ago. The protagonist is Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, who undertakes a perilous journey to Niagara Falls to drown an evil totemic mask before it destroys her race. By the husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who wrote People of the Sea, People of the Wolf and People of the Fire.
19) Babylonians
Author
Series
Peoples of the past volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
"The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life began there. Many fundamental developments in human society - from hunter-gatherer to farmer, from village to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 34
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
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