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1) I see yellow
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Shares the story of a child identifying yellow things. Readers will observe with the child, pointing out a school bus, flowers and more. This story helps readers learn the words I, see, and yellow. Bright pictures provide visual cues to help the reader."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the clash of the colors! Blue vs yellow. Which one will be declared the best color of all? Will they join forces and be mightier together? Or will another color challenge them for the title? Ding! Ding! Let the battle begin!
5) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1793, the interim capital city of Philadelphia was struck by a mysterious malady that ended up killing at least one-tenth of the population, prompting an evacuation, and shutting down the nascent federal government, resulting in shocking parallels to recent pandemics and offering important political lessons"--
Publisher
498 Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The book covers the songs and projects undertaken by the Beatles shortly after completion of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in April 1967. In following ten months, the group wrote and recorded the song "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World TV program that was broadcast by satellite throughout...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As the yellow fever epidemic continues to ravage New Orleans and the orphanages become more crowded, Marie-Grace and Cécile help with the orphans, until Marie-Grace learns that her Uncle Luc's fiancée, Mademoiselle Océane, has fallen ill.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cécile Rey plans to spend her summer working with her friend Marie-Grace Gardner at a nearby orphanage and enjoying time with her brother who recently returned from France, but, after yellow fever begins to spread in New Orleans, she worries she will not have the strength to help her family when they need her most.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of "immunocapital." For whites, immunity signaled creditworthiness. For enslaved Blacks, immunity enhanced their exploitability, relegating them to the harshest labor"--
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