Elizabeth Partridge
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workers-all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. They were forced to live in incarceration camps, under hostile conditions, their futures uncertain. How did they endure it?...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
This book describes John Lennon's life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid in Liverpool to the years after the Beatles when he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life--one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating fame in almost a split second.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
9) Moon glowing
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the autumn leaves begin to fall, the squirrel, bat, beaver, and a bear all get ready for the winter season.
12) Dogtag summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
13) Whistling: story
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While on a camping trip with his father, a boy draws on the whistling practice they have shared and finally whistles up the sun.
14) Pig's egg
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pig and Hen love painting pictures. One day, Hen doesn't join Pig because she is sitting on her eggs. Pig hopes they will hatch soon because he misses his painting partner. One day, he gets a colorful idea...
16) True Stories
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited
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