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English
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Growing up as the child of former sharecroppers in a segregated Baltimore, Elijah Cummings saw firsthand how injustice could run rampant, even in a democracy that promises fairness and equality. But with a strong support system and fiery self-discipline, Elijah utilized the momentum of the civil rights movement to overcome the obstacles of poverty and racism to effect change at a time when our country so badly needed it. In We're Better Than This,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
4) Dreamers
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
2019 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K &1
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Pura Belpré Award winners
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Pura Belpré Award winners
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
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Language
English
Description
"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
Disability Awareness Guest List
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
Disability Awareness Guest List
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"One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong in school and society -a powerful role model for young adults with a passion for activism"--
Heumann was only five years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, she had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life. In this young...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. This volume features Sonia Sotomayor, the first...
11) I am Anne Frank
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Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. -- adapted from Amazon.com
This engaging biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers. At the back are an...
13) I am Sacagawea
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Language
English
Description
"A biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who served as a translator for the Lewis and Clark Expedition."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Description
A picture book portrait of the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, presented by two Coretta Scott King Honor winners, includes coverage of Thurgood Marshall's upbringing in segregated Baltimore, achievements with the NAACP and contributions to landmark equality rulings.
16) Sigmund Freud
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
17) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Here was a man with an imagination so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented a new branch of math, calculus, and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. He spent much of his time trying to predict the future from passages in the Bible and to unlock the secret of turning base metals into gold in an alchemy lab, showing again...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Stacey Abrams is an activist who works for fair voting rights. She's a lawyer, an author, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, too! Experience all the exciting moments in Stacey's thrilling life in this exciting biography, packed with two-color illustrations and fun facts, like how the census helps everyone!"--
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