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5) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the life of Lakota chief Crazy Horse in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitiousaltruism. Her public acclaim and activism belied the introspective, self-appraising, and emotional persona she expressed in the pages of her forty-seven extant diaries. After reconciling herself to...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A cookbook featuring rich soups, juicy roasts, and luscious desserts come to life through historic images and artistic photography. Gilded Age details and entertaining stories of celebrities from the era-the Vanderbilts, Astors, Carnegies, and Rockefellers-are melded with historic menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens"--
Author
Series
Teeny Houdini volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tiny, impulsive Bessie Lee starts learning to become a magician to enter her school's talent show"--
11) Ace of spades
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In Held Hostage, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse health and education outcomes than larger states, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for malaria? Some of those are derived from cinchona and wormwood....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
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