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(0)Martin W Sandler
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration's sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Includes Mathew B. Brady, William Henry Jackson, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Edward S. Curtis, James Van Der Zee, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Margaret Bourke-White and Toni Frissell.
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, stunning archival material, and vivid storytelling, Shipwrecked! dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Uncorrected Proof
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
192 pages.
Language
English
Description
"Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these...
8) COWBOYS
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Juvenile Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 3 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Wayduh started its life as a slave ship. Launched in 1716 for use in the Triangular Trade, it had been divested of its human cargo in the Caribbean and was laden with riches for the return to England when it was taken by pirates. Black Sam Bellamy, one of the most successful pirates of the time, made the Whydah his flagship and loaded it with loot from vessels plundered along the East Coast of America -- until one stormy night in 1717, when...