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3) New Jersey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the customs, people, and places of New Jersey. Maps and symbols are included to enrich the student's understanding of geography and state identity.
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The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, through allegations of a thoroughly corrupt medical and dental university, through Mafia influence at all levels, to a governor who suddenly declares himself a "gay...
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On February 25, 1938, in the early days of the welfare system, the reviled poormaster Harry Barck--wielding power over who would receive public aid--died from a paper spike thrust into his heart during a scuffle with an unemployed mason named Joe Scutellaro, a fight that occurred when Barak denied Scutellaro welfare money and suggested the man's wife prostitute herself on the streets rather than ask the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, for aid. Scutellaro...
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As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the affluent New Jersey township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police coverup ran rampant, and the case went unsolved...
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Ghost stories from down the shore have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery!
Welcome to the spooky Jersey Shore! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms.
Did you know that many of the Jersey Shore's famous lighthouses are haunted? Or that restless ghosts from the past wander these moonlit shores? Can you believe musical apparitions may be rocking--and haunting...
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Like many historical events, the American Revolution is sometimes overlooked, ignored, or minimized by historians because of common shrouding in romantic myth or interference from stubborn stereotypes. Here historian Phillip Thomas Tucker provides an in-depth look at the events of the Battle of Trenton, weeding out fiction and legend and presenting new insights and analysis. Stories from many forgotten individuals of the war, including officers and...
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"On 9/11 Lieutenant Brian Murphy, NYPD, ran back into the collapsing North Tower. He was off duty and had not returned home the night before. Three years later his father, retired Detective-Sergeant Jimmy Murphy, sets out to find the truth about his son, his family, and his country"--
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One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make peace with all that he saw there.
On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond to the attack on the World Trade Center. When the towers collapsed,...
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