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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"The corruption, activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles for the right to vote are chronicled by an award-winning nonfiction author. For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto power, have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent people from casting ballets or outright stolen votes and sometimes entire elections....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made -- a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. She says: Football, shmootball. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism... the list goes on. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos. These...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany" --
July 1936. Thousands of people cheered as the U.S. Olympic teams boarded the S.S. Manhattan, bound for Berlin. Among the athletes were the 14 players representing the first-ever U.S. Olympic basketball team. In Germany, Jewish people and political opponents of the Nazis were the targets of vicious mistreatment, but international visitors wouldn't see...
5) Refugees
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
"Explores the history of this refugees and the obstacles they face and how it has evolved, including how people and laws are addressing it today"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the political agendas, actions, and religious beliefs of individuals and groups who, throughout history, have resorted to violent actions in order to generate fear and gain their objectives.
8) Oil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the petroleum industry, its history, and its key players; examines the relationship between oil, finance, and politics; and explores the future of oil as supplies diminish and global warming threatens.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In a democracy that prides itself on free and fair elections, it is vital that American citizens not lose faith in the integrity of the election. Experts say federal and state governments must approach the threat of election interference with more urgency. Better communication is needed to warn campaigns and election officials when hacking is detected. Social media companies must take steps to eliminate fake news and deceptive ads. More money must...
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