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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Waging a Good War, Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement of 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today. He follow Martin Luther King, Jr. and other key figures from Montgomery to Memphis, demonstrating that Gandhian nonviolence was a philosophy of active, not passive, resistance. Ricks also highlights lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool. Waging a Good War is...
2283) Angels of North County
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Angels of North County is an adventure novel set in the late 1800s in the American West. The 'Angels' are Civil War veterans exiled by the war to the horse country of North County. The Angels face off against a band of Native Americans led by a legendary warlord, the White Lion. The White Lion raids deep into the North County and his raid sets the Angels off on a journey of revenge that takes them down through the circles of the wasteland where...
Author
Series
West of the big river volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
2286) Bear claw
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
2287) Arctic will
Author
Series
Watch eyes trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As the 1910 Alaska sled dog race approaches, Anya and Rune must prevail over dark spirits bent on killing every Chukchi dog on Native Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.
2289) Arctic storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, thirteen-year-old Anya, a Chukchi shaman, will do anything to protect the sled dogs she has raised so she joins forces with sixteen-year-old seafarer Rune Johansson to make a stand against phantom predators hiding in the Arctic West as a powerful ice storm brews.
2290) Arctic shadow
Author
Series
Watch eyes trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a sled dog is killed in 1909 Alaska, fourteen-year-old Anya, a Chukchi shaman, and seventeen-year-old Rune must battle dark spirits born of inhuman evil.
2291) The long shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Alice Sanborn and best friend Jerushah cross paths with a bounty hunter in rural northern Vermont, the teens stage a daring rescue for former slave Sarah Johnson -- but winter weather, politics, and challenges of mountain life bring more danger. It's March 1850 in small-town Vermont, and tempers flare over the "right kind" of Abolition. When the two fifteen-year-olds suspect Alice's older brother William is taking dangerous risks to shelter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sure, it would've been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman's trust -- before squaring off with the most ruthless pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier.
Author
Series
Great Western Detective League volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Tim Colter Western volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years have passed since Tim Colter and his family were ambushed on the Oregon Trail, forcing the young boy to find an unlikely ally in one-eyed mountain man Jed Reno. Now a widowed deputy U.S. marshal and Civil War veteran, Colter is finally ready to remarry and settle down--until a dangerous new assignment becomes a life-or-death struggle for the soul of a town and the heart of its people . . . The Union Pacific Railroad is laying down...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1880 one of the most unusual men in the territories rides into Tombstone. He is tall and handsome, dressed in white fringed buckskins, with long yellow hair and a mustache. One of his pearl-handled Colts is adorned with notches. He says his name is Captain William R. Tettenborn, formerly of the Russian army, and he is here to find the notorious outlaw Curly Bill Brocius. Everyone in town thinks that Tettenborn is a strange fellow. But he buys them...
2297) Dinosaur empire!
Author
Series
Earth before us volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ronnie is just a normal fifth-grader trying to pass her science class's impossible quiz on the history of dinosaurs... until she happens upon her neighbor -- Ms. Lernin -- a retired paleontologist. With the assistance of Science Magic, Ronnie and Ms. Lernin travel back through time and space to experience the Mesozoic Era firsthand. They visit three important time periods in the development of the Mesozoic Era: the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the...
2298) Of ashes and dust
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. -- Job 30:19 (NKJV) Jim Robbins is a dead man, and he knows it. He's fought Yankee and Pawnee, fought for the love of two very different women, fought for his very survival. Now, as the scenes of his life flash before him, his greatest struggle is about to begin. Wounded in a railroad explosion, Jim reviews those moments that shaped him. From the inequities of the Antebellum South,...
2299) Golden spike
Author
Series
Iron Horse Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869--that almost didn't happen.
Author
Series
Of prophets and kings volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Old Testament book of Daniel comes to life through the story of a young Hebrew girl who survives in Babylonian captivity to become Daniel's wife and is transformed into a confident woman who realizes her need of the God who conquers both fire and lions"--
Belili escaped death nearly seventy years ago as the Babylonians ransacked Jerusalem and took their finest as captives. She'd perfected her survival skills in the many years amongst the Magoi...
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