Up close (Viking)
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Rachel Carson: a twentieth-century life
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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Ella Fitzgerald
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: a twentieth-century life
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[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books--when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used.
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Theodore Roosevelt: a twentieth-century life
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