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1) Bill Clinton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Bill Clinton including his early political career and key events from Clinton's administration including the North American Free Trade Agreement, 2000 Camp David Summit, and his impeachment by the House of Representatives. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Abraham Lincoln including his military service, early political career, and key events from Lincoln's administration including the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
3) Barack Obama
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Barack Obama including his early political career and key events from Obama's administration including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Affordable Care Act, and the Clean Power Plan. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Andrew Jackson including his military service, early political career, and key events from Jackson's administration including the Indian Removal Act and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
5) James Monroe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to James Monroe including his military service, early political career, and key events from Monroe's administration including the Monroe Doctrine. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Millard Fillmore including his early political career and key events from Fillmore's administration including the Compromise of 1850 and the Treaty of Kanagawa. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Theodore Roosevelt including his early political career and key events from Roosevelt's administration including building of the Panama Canal, creating the Department of Commerce and Labor, and winning the Nobel Prize. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Zachary Taylor including his early political career and key events from Taylor's administration including the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the national debate over slavery. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Johnson's impeachment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
10) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Thomas Jefferson including his early political career and key events from Jefferson's administration, including the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
11) Franklin Pierce
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to the life of Franklin Pierce including his military service, early political career, and key events from Pierce's administration including the Gadsden Purchase, the Treaty of Kanagawa, and Bleeding Kansas. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
12) Ronald Reagan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Ronald Reagan including his early political career and key events from Reagan's administration including the Reagan Revolution and the Cold War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
13) John Adams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to John Adams including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
14) John Tyler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces young readers to the life of John Tyler including his military service, early political career, and key events from Tyler's administration including his opposition to the national bank, Second Seminole War, and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
15) John F. Kennedy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to John F. Kennedy including his military service, early political career, and key events from Kennedy's administration including the Cold War, space race, Bay of Pigs invasion, and Cuban missile crisis. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
16) William McKinley
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to William McKinley including his early political and key events from McKinley's administration including the Spanish-American War, the expansion of US territory to include the Hawaiian Islands, and his assassination by Leon F. Czolgosz. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to John Quincy Adams including his political career as a Massachusetts state senator, US senator, US secretary of state, minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, and US president. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
18) George W. Bush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to George W. Bush including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
19) Herbert Hoover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to Herbert Hoover including his early career as a geology engineer, his early political career, and key events from Hoover's administration including the Great Depression. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography introduces readers to George Washington including his military service, early political career, and key events from Washington's administration including creating the first presidential cabinet and creating a financial plan for the new nation. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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