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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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In Michelle Obama, early readers will learn about the life, accomplishments, and contributions of former first lady and public figure Michelle Obama. Vibrant, full-color photos, and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they learn about her life.
A timeline helps readers identify major life accomplishments in Obama's life, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. This title also features reading tips for teachers and...
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Six mille réfugiés s'entassent dans un camp sur l'île paradisiaque de Lesbos.
Le camp de Moria se situe à Lesbos, une île grecque paradisiaque. Environ six mille réfugiés s'y entassent, échoués là après un voyage effroyable, entrepris avec ce qu'il leur restait d'espoir. Mais là-bas, c'est nulle part, c'est l'attente interminable. Les enfants jouent parmi les déchets. Les malades ne sont soignés qu'avec du paracétamol. Les familles...
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A biographical account of the life of the late Bill May, a regionally famous hippie radical-turned-star prosecutor-turned-prestigious criminal defense attorney, as told to his young female protege, with non-stop adventure, humor, and spiritual themes relating to topics of popular interest today. Born in Dallas in 1950 to alcoholic parents, Bill excels in R.O.T.C. and is given an appointment to the academy, for a bright future in the military. The...
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Après la guerre d'Algérie, certains rescapés harkis et leurs familles sont arrivés en métropole, ils rêvaient de liberté, d'égalité et de paix. Cependant, ils n'ont trouvé que mépris, isolement et abandon. Leur histoire était devenue taboue, ils étaient mués en coupables de tous les maux du pays. Pourtant, en 1977, Smain Djebarni a créé la première association dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne dans le Villeneuve-sur-Lot pour...
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Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as the First Lady of the United States.
This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle Obama's numerous public statements- interviews, books, social media posts, television appearances, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of her legacy as one of America's most recognizable and influential women.
Now, for the...
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One day in Laurel, Mississippi, a twenty-six-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub-and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre that it wasn't until later-after she saw the doctor-that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell, and other giants of the oil industry-creating...
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Michael Ratner (1943–2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was also the President of the National Lawyers Guild.
Ratner handled some of the most significant cases In American history. This book tells why and...
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Bullied as a Jewish kid in the hardscrabble neighborhoods of Chicago, Mike Burg learned to fight at an early age. As an attorney, he brought that same fire-and innate sympathy for the underdog-into the courtroom to become one of America's top trial lawyers fighting for consumers' rights.
Burg has represented everyone from the cast of The Little Rascals to Ralph Tamm in the first NFL steroids case, and in Trial by Fire, Burg recounts some of his...
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The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history
When she was just nine, Golriz Ghahraman and her parents were forced to flee their home in Iran. After a terrifying and uncertain journey, they landed in Auckland where they were able to seek asylum and, ultimately, create a new life.
In this open and intimate account, Ghahraman talks about making a home in Aotearoa New Zealand, her work as a human rights...
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And Justice For All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in many nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself. Arthur Chaskalson enters the...
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An epic biography filled with drama, conflict, and surmounted challenges.
The Real RFK Jr. is an intimate biographical portrait examining the controversial activist's journey from anguish and addiction to becoming the country's leading environmental champion fighting government corruption, corporate greed, and a captured media. Written by his longtime colleague Dick Russell, the biography also exposes the misconceptions and explains the rationale...
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Escribí este libro en la India, en lengua gujaratí, que es una de las lenguas principales de la India, el año del centenario de Gandhi (1969). Él mismo era gujaratí, es decir, nativo del Estado del Gujarat, al noroeste de la India, donde yo viví muchos años, y en esa lengua escribió él su propia autobiografía, que, luego, su secretario, Mahadev Desai, tradujo al inglés, para posteriormente traducirse a todas las lenguas del mundo. Ahora,...
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"With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark--and the historic thirteen years of litigation that followed--through the dogged pursuit...
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