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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
GN 770L
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English
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2019 Eisner Award Winner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material
Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit.
With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday).
Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising,...
Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
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An autobiography of growing up as an Iranian-American describes the author's family's 1971 move from Iran to Southern California, the members of her diverse family, and their struggle with culture shock.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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The author, born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants, provides an account of her life growing up in a family of migrant farm workers, and tells how she overcame the disadvantages of her youth to attend college and earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth Keckly was...
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth Keckly was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
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A memoir in which the author, one of the first African-American women at Yale, shares the story of her life growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and tells how the welfare system saved the family by enabling her and her siblings to receive a good education.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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A biography of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, drawing from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson's own letters to answer questions about her development as a poet and her private life.
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable figures, her education at Radcliffe and an extraordinary relationship with her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan. An unforgettable portrait of one of the 20th century's outstanding women.
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