Stuart A Kallen
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Climate change is the biggest problem facing young people today and countless young activists have followed Greta Thunberg into the climate advocacy movement. Stand Up Against Climate Change includes personal accounts from teen climate activists and others as it introduces readers to the issue, the activists, the tools of the trade, and the risks and rights of activism.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Description
October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He carried out the bloody assignment with nine point-blank shots to Guevara's body. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination...
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Introduces the problems of global waste disposal, describing the hazards of toxins associated with landfills, plastics floating in the oceans, and debris orbiting the planet, with some of the solutions proposed by scientists. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Examines events that led to the Delano Grape Strike from 1965 through 1970, discussing low wages, dangerous working conditions, the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the United States Farmworkers Union, and other related topics.
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Formats
Description
"The number people working side gigs has been growing. And many more turned to side gigs as unemployment soared in 2020. According to the Freelancers Union, which advocates for independent workers, 57 million Americans were self-employed in 2019. Around 2 million more started their own side gigs in 2020"--
6) John Hancock
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the life of John Hancock, one of the wealthiest men in the American colonies and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
13) The 1990s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.
14) The 1980s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Describes what it was like to be involved in the Underground Railroad, discussing life on the run, the lives of the trackers, conductors, and stationmasters, and the building of new lives in Canada.
19) The war at home
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the impact of World War II on life in the United States, including preparations for the war, civil defense, the changing work force, family life, and the end of the war.