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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A commemorative introduction to the Emancipation Proclamation provides excerpts from historical sources, reproductions of archival images, and lesser-known facts that challenge popular beliefs.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the sugar industry, discussing its historical impact, influence in the energy and food industries, and role in the modern diet.
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Series
Publisher
Wheelhouse Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Boys travel to the ancient world to learn about twelve crucial military battles that changed world history. Beginning in Ancient Greece and Persia, the battles continue into the Middle Ages-including the Crusades-and conclude with the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England in 1588, beginning modern naval warfare.
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Witnesses to the murder of their families and the destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland became the nerves of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis. The Light of Days reveals the real history of these women whose little-known feats have been eclipsed by time." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Goodwin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Heiligman draws on the letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime to weave a tale of two lives intertwined as Theo supported Vincent's struggles to find his path in life.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the veryconcentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
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