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IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Born a slave in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington rose in prominence to become black America's foremost spokesman. This is the dramatic autobiographical account of Washington's struggle to succeed and prosper in a country that refused to acknowledge his existence. From his fight for an education to his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Up From Slavery is one of the most significant and defining works in American literature. A...
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"Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally...
6) Antelopes
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[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the various species of African antelope.
7) Giraffes
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Pub. Date
©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the giraffe.
8) Hippopotamus
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©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the hippopotamus.
9) Hyenas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the hyena.
10) Zebras
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the zebra.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.
12) Zulu
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1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Surveys the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Zulu people of South Africa.
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The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown...
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℗♭2008
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"Thomas Dyja's fascinating and compelling biography of Walter White takes us into the personal and political world of this fair-skinned, blond and blue-eyed, brash and impulsive, stylish and complex man. His story is about one of the few individuals in American history who devoted himself completely to the concept of a color-blind nation, yet lost the delicate balance between ambition and advocacy that had been his trademark." "In restoring Walter...
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From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus, one historian...
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In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable turn of events, but a few stand out as true giants. David Stricklin's superb new biography explores the life of one of them, Louis Armstrong.
The life story of...