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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
2) John Adams
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a biography portraying John Adams as a brilliant, fiercely independent Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and then rose to become the second president of the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Declaration of Independence is an American symbol that helps citizens define their rights. Join Thomas Jefferson as he introduces the story of the creation of the famous document he wrote, the Declaration of Independence.
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Declaration of Independence changed America forever. Readers will learn about the events that led up to the Declaration including unfair taxation from King George III and the Boston Tea Party. The vivid images, engaging sidebars, and supportive text explain what roles John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson played in the creation of the document and what they meant by including "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". To help...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the Declaration of Independence in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of the document and its significance through history.
7) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Many people traveled far to a new land in search of freedom. But years later, they were still ruled by a foreign power. How did the Declaration of Independence proclaim freedom? And how did it help form the United States?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -- an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time...
11) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 17
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
12) Early Congresses
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This nonfiction book invites readers to learn about the very first United States Congress and government. Readers will learn about colonists' frustrations with the British and what caused them to create the First and Second Continental Congress, Committees of Correspondence, and the Declaration of Independence. With plenty of colorful images, easy-to-read text, and engaging sidebars, readers will be fascinated from cover to cover as they are introduced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating, in-depth study of the founding fathers of the United States. Learn about the cultures and societies upon which they based the U.S. government and discover the influence of Egyptian, Greek and Native American cultures on our own. This program discusses the former system of government our founders took notice of most and explore the origin and creation of the Declaration of Independence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the circumstances preceding and following the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the men who wrote and signed it, and the document's importance to United States history.
16) The Constitution
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Uses time lines, illustrations, photographs and a map to help present the history and evolution of the Constitution of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In May 1787 delegates from across the country--including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin--gathered in Philadelphia and, meeting over the course of a sweltering summer, created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States.
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