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(0)Russell Freedman
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 from the arrival of the ships full of controversial taxed tea in Boston Harbor, through the explosive protest meetings at the Old South Church, to the defiant act of dumping 226 chests of fine tea into the harbor on December 16.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.