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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
3) My life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 92
Language
English
Description
President Bill Clinton's my life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This is his story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable -- or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out the duties of the most powerful man in the world? Killing Reagan reaches back to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia, to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Synopsis: In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live. Decision Points brings readers inside the Texas governor's mansion on...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
Description
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
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Profiles the intertwined lives of seven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...
12) The presence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A small-town lawyer and politician from North Carolina is propelled into the middle of big-time politics in Washington, D.C. There, special interests and the underworld severely test his faith.
13) You say it first
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
15) Vixen 03
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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"1954, Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs-canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency-vanished. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1968, Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five...
16) Executive orders
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 78
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After an airliner crashes into the Capitol, killing the president, Jack Ryan, the vice-president takes over. The novel describes Ryan's campaign to impose a right-wing morality on the U.S. and a new order on the world, the latter accomplished with the aid of high-tech warfare. A sequel to Debt of Honor. Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence....
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 13
Thorndike Press large print basic
Jack Ryan universe volume 16
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 05
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Thorndike Press large print basic
Jack Ryan universe volume 16
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 05
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
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English
Description
Decades ago, as a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan Sr. was sent out to investigate the death of an operative only to uncover the existence of a KGB assassin codenamed Zenith. He was never able to find the killer In the present, a new strongman has emerged in the ever-chaotic Russian republic the enigmatic President Valeri Volodon. But the foundations of his personal empire are built on a bloody secret from his past. And none who know of it have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of...
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Jack Ryan novel volume 07
Jack Ryan novel volume 06
Jack Ryan Jack Ryan Jr. and John Clark novels volume 07
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Jack Ryan novel volume 07
Jack Ryan novel volume 06
Jack Ryan Jack Ryan Jr. and John Clark novels volume 07
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
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English
Description
How do you save the U.S. President from himself? Jack Ryan never thought he'd would have to ask this question. With the exceptional realism and authenticity, Clancy, constructs a novel of unrelenting suspense, a story as explosive as today's headlines. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Forces collide. Shots are exchanged. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the...
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