Tony
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war
Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller is now in softcover with a bonus chapter on how the "Dare to Be Uncommon" movement is reaching schools, teams, and families across the country and an update on Tony's life since retiring as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. What does it take to live a life of significance? When Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy took home the trophy in Super Bowl XLI, fans around the world looked to him as the epitome of success....
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces. Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers • Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs • and other special-mission units The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and Into the Storm, provided masterly blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain old-fashioned storytelling. Shadow Warriors is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
6) Beloved
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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-- People) Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the gods, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth-birthday, he'll be cast out of the orphanage.
And, Wreck's problems aren't merelyabout finding a home. He's been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. He's also pretty sure he's being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know-Zeke...