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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Based on James L. Swanson's bestselling adult book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, this version, written especially for young people, is a fascinating look at the assassination of the sixteenth president of the United States. But there's more to the story. Here, readers will meet Abraham Lincoln the man, the father, the husband, the friend. And they will get a firsthand look at how Lincoln's death impacted those closest to him.
2) Seeker
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, what's a teenage history buff to do? Join the hunt for the president's killer, of course! From the crack of the fatal shot to the hunt for John Wilkes Booth, Nick arrives at one of the most pivotal moments in American history.
Series
Shakespeare children's story volume 10
Lexile measure
NC 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julius Caesar is another one of Shakespeare's famous plays that portrays actual events from Roman history. Set in ancient Rome, the play unfolds the evil conspiracy behind Caesar's murder and the great tragedy that strikes Rome in the aftermath of his death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Today everyone knows the name of John Wilkes Booth, the notorious zealot who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. But in his lifetime, the killer was an actor who was well-known among fans of the theater well-known but less famous and less admired than his brother Edwin. In the 1860s, Edwin Booth ranked among the greatest and most-respected stars of the stage. He lived in New York and sympathized with the Union cause, while his younger brother stomped the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lincoln watched a play. Garfield walked through a train station. McKinley shook hands with his public. Kennedy smiled and waved from a motorcade. In these moments shots rang out and four presidents suffered mortal wounds. Some say their assassins were calculating killers. Others say they were madmen guided by strange notions of the world. Assassins' America examines the life of each killer and his victim. Their stories are full of twists and mysteries,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed video games come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. It features the true stories behind the battles, assassinations, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents volume one of an eight-volume series on political assassinations, and describes the events that led to the murder of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, reaction to the assassination, and how it changed the course of history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.
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