Teri Kanefield
Author
Series
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local, states would...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Explores Susan B. Anthony's life, from childhood to her public career as a radical abolitionist to her rise to become an international leader of the women's suffrage movement.
3) The girl from the tar paper school: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.