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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the runaway slave who became an abolitionist, a crusader for women's rights, and an advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opioids to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 42
Physical Desc
521 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
-- -- High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
13) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
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"This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun
“[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPR
WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD...
“[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPR
WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
xxx, 450 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
-- USA TodayIn 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew. Sent first to Iraq—a war he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” —and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up for a second World War, this fearless woman knew that she...
17) Shout
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A memoir in verse shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her difficult early childhood, and her experiences surrounding her publication of "Speak."
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as the 'Spy Who Couldn't Spell' ... In this ... true-life spy thriller, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reveals how the FBI unraveled Regan's strange web of codes to build...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...
20) Spinning
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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