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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Carrie is sent to find her little brother, Anthony, who is late again. Join Carrie on her hunt for Anthony in almost everyone else's kitchen on the block where they both discover that, everybody cooks rice! Includes several rice recipes.
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English
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"That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World features Riley's grandson, Caleb, and Lola photographed in timeless black and white, dressed as important individuals such as business owners, educators, civil rights leaders, and artists, alongside detailed biographies that begin with the figures as young children who had the same ambitions, fears, strengths, and obstacles facing them that readers today may still experience. Muhammad Ali's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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A boy grows up to make positive change in his community.
After suffering much heartache, Sundar decides change must come to his small Indian village. He believes girls should be valued as much as boys and that land should not be needlessly destroyed. Sundar's plan? To celebrate the birth of every girl with the planting of 111 trees. Though many villagers resist at first, Sundar slowly gains their support, and today, over a quarter of a million trees...
10) Powwow day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
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"Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again"--Title verso page.
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