Encounter: Narrative nonfiction picture books
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Jars of hope: how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
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Rebel with a cause: the daring adventure of Dicey Langston, girl spy of the American Revolution
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Helen Thayer's Arctic adventure: a woman and a dog walk to the North Pole
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Kunkush: the true story of a refugee cat
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Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightning-fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that...
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Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's judgement, determination, and peacemaking role with the...
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Karl's new beak: 3-D printing builds a bird a better life
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Ona Judge outwits the Washingtons: an enslaved woman fights for freedom
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