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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Themes: Business Leader, Biography, innovation, Elon Musk is an entrepreneur with a unique vision. He builds businesses with the goal of solving our world's biggest problems. The books and video games he loved as a child inspire him to innovate. Though some people think his ideas are unconventional, Musk continues to work toward his vision of a better future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish Famine, a time when one million people died from starvation and disease and two million more fled their homeland. Black Potatoes is the compelling story of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
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A coming-of-age memoir by the Emmy award-winning actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Publishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl's courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. But...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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