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Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
300L
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote. This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
An introduction to the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American female doctor. Describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
She couldn't go to college. She couldn't become a politician. She couldn't even vote. But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her. She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men--and that included the right to vote. It took nearly seventy-five years and generations of women fighting for their rights through words, through action, and through pure determination--for things to slowly begin to...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this title, readers will explore sea routes around the world with Sir Francis Drake. Follow Drake's journeys as he sails the seas seeking wealth for England. Along the way he becomes the first Englishman to sail up the Pacific coast of South America.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There was a time when most people thought women should not be doctors. Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to change that. She found a medical school that accepted her. Then, she earned the highest grades in her class. Elizabeth became the first woman doctor in the United States. Discover how this pioneer in medicine and women's equality changed the world forever"--Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
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Description
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"The nonfiction story of a team of women innovators, Jean Jennings Bartik, Kay McNulty Mauchly, and Betty Snyder Holberton, who programmed early computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly-inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days-began a circumnavigation she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, another New York publication put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland was headed around the world in the opposite direction, thinking she could beat Bly's time. Only one woman...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a spring day in 1851, a meeting between two women would later shape U.S. history. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, New York, and soon kindled a friendship. This engaging volume reveals how Stanton and Anthony's teamwork played a principal role in advancing the women's rights movement in the United States. Primary sources, intriguing fact boxes, and eye-catching historical images cast light on these two important...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In June of 1939, British monarchs King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit America, the first visit ever by reigning British royalty. As part of the festivities, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosts an all-American picnic that includes hot dogs, a menu item that shocks some people"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened all because of her race--even though New York was a free state at that time. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court--where future president Chester Arthur represented her--and won! Her...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1100L
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Eliza Hamilton, wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, covering her early years in New York, her married life with Alexander, and her later years as a generous philanthropist.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.
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