Marc Aronson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds, the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"--
"A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." –Robert Capa
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle-the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend Chim took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the action to news...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Bill Gates was born in 1955, no one owned a personal computer. Gates envisioned what a computerized society could be and he set out to lead the way, building the Microsoft empire with single-minded drive. Today, the man who made his fortune by putting the whole world in touch now hopes to improve lives around the planet.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those feelings come from? Why are they so powerful?
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Why did the American Revolution take place? It was about more than the dates and details we all know: war elephants charging a fort in India and high-stakes gambles of bankers in Scotland, among other events, also played a part in the "real revolution" in the minds of the entire population of what would become the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century unmasks the man behind the FBI, his family history, and relationships, and explores his own need for secrecy, deceit, and control, and the broad trends in society that shaped his world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage. Its one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.
19) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Introduces readers to John William Henry, the man behind the myth. Traces the history of the building of the railroads and the period of Reconstruction and discusses folk tales, American mythology, and the tradition of work songs.