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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA's astronaut class -the Mercury 7. The men endured grueling training and constant media attention for the honor of becoming America's first space heroes. But a group of 13 women -accomplished air racers, test pilots, and flight instructors -were enduring those same astronaut tests...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and engaging historical nonfiction book for kids 9 to 12, this newly adapted young readers' edition of the acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of America's glowing girls and their brave fight for justice
Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky-until they start suffering...
4) Ripper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.