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21) Abraham Lincoln
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers to Abraham Lincoln including his military service, early political career, and key events from Lincoln's administration including the American Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and his assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information." -- Publisher's website.
22) Ronald Reagan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Ronald Reagan including his early political career and key events from Reagan's administration including the Reagan Revolution, ending the Cold War, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
23) Jimmy Carter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers to Jimmy Carter including his early political career and key events from Carter's administration including the Emergency Natural Gas Act, a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and the Iran hostage crisis. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included." -- Publisher's website.
24) Woodrow Wilson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Woodrow Wilson including his early political career and key events from Wilson's administration including World War I, Paris Peace Conference, signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and the Nineteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Benjamin Harrison, including his early political career and key events from Harrison's administration, including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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What's so great about Colorado? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Centennial State! Explore Colorado's snowy mountain peaks, wild rivers, and rich history. The Colorado by Map feature shows where you'll find all the places covered in the book. A special section provides quick state facts such as the state motto, capital, population, animals, foods, and more. Take a fun-filled tour of all there is to discover in Colorado!
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"In 1954, the Supreme Court rejected the notion of 'separate but equal' facilities in the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision. Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy, Author David K. Fremon shows how segregation made the South a caste system. He traces the history of racial discrimination from the end of the Civil War through the Jim Crow era...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A thorough, illustrated biography discussing Jefferson's childhood, his career, his family, and his term as the third president of the United States. Includes a table of contents, time line, phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and detailed captions and sidebars to aid in comprehension.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Follows the life of Martin Van Buren from his childhood in New York through his term as the eighth president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Van Buren, and other reference materials.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Follows the life of John Tyler from his childhood in Virginia through his term as the tenth president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Tyler, and other reference materials.
31) George H.W. Bush
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United States presidents (ABDO)
United States presidents) volume no. 41
Checkerboard biography library. United States Presidents volume No. 41
United States presidents) volume no. 41
Checkerboard biography library. United States Presidents volume No. 41
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to George H.W. Bush, including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Persian Gulf War, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
32) Hawaii
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Hawaii"--Provided by publisher.
33) Pennsylvania
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Pennsylvania"--
34) Puerto Rico
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Puerto Rico"--
35) Martin Van Buren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Martin Van Buren including his early political career and key events from Van Buren's administration including the Second Seminole War and passage of the Independent Treasury Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
36) Millard Fillmore
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers to Millard Fillmore including his early political career and key events from Fillmore's administration including the Compromise of 1850 and the Treaty of Kanagawa. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Provided by publisher....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers to William H. Harrison including his military service during the War of 1812; his early political career as governor of Indiana Territory, US congressman, Ohio state senator; and Harrison's term as the shortest presidency in US history. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
38) Null and Void
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Born without magic, Mackenzie Little has few prospects. In a futile attempt to break her out of the null caste, her mother ropes her into participating in a charity auction, where anything can be bought with enough money. She never expected her ex-boss would buy her company. For a day, she lives a fairy tale.
Nine months later, despite their precautions, Mackenzie's little miracle is born.
Armed with Texas pride and New York viciousness, Mackenzie...
39) Huntress
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Like the other men in Prince Kelvin's line, only the love of another can free him from his family's curse, but it's hard finding the perfect woman able to love him despite all his flaws-and his tendency to transform into an animal during the spring. To survive and reclaim his humanity, he must find someone who would turn the world upside down for him, not because of fame, wealth, or power, but because he has earned her trust and love.
When he develops...
40) The Captive King
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In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life-and love-always finds a way. At the Texas Charity Auction, money can buy anything, and Summer Cassidy is under orders to take advantage of the opportunity. While she believes the marital collar once worn by an Aztec queen belongs in a museum, it's up to her to sell the priceless treasure to one of the elite in attendance. Meeting Bachelor #103, a man who finds her descriptions of human sacrifice...