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1) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
3) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Lipper/Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Chronicles the life of Joan of Arc, focusing on how the young girl overcame great odds to become a heroine, martyr, and saint.
5) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?...
7) Buddha
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A world-renouned religious thinker contemplates one of the world's most sacred figures. In a profound blend of biography, religion, history, and philosophy, Armstrong's highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great expectations and A Christmas carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels, " Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley...
11) Napoleon
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Description
When today's world leaders need inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often turn to Winston Churchill, quoting him and citing his heroic example. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a soldier early in life. But after he escaped from a South African prison camp, his national fame catapulted him into a life of politics. In this Penguin life, the eminent historian John Keegan charts Churchill's...
14) Martin Luther
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 10
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"With humor and honesty, and guided by the influence of her inspiring and professional troublemaking grandmother, Funmilayo Faloyin, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we've been silencing--because truth-telling is a muscle. The point is not to be fearless. It is to know we are afraid and to charge forward...
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