Teri Kanefield
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Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local, states would...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children are taught much about the men who shaped early America, but history-shaping colonial women remain largely unknown and undiscussed. The Extraordinary Suzy Wright sets about to change that, telling the little-known story of Quaker Susanna (Suzy) Wright (1697-1784), a renowned poet and political activist. Suzy helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier, where she acted as legal counselor to her less literate neighbors, preparing wills, deeds, indentures,...
3) Rivka's Way
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English
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Rivka has never been beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter. One day she ventures outside . . and nothing will ever be the same.
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Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Andrew Jackson tells the story of one of our most controversial presidents.
Born in the Carolina backwoods, Jackson joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of thirteen. After a reckless youth of gunfights, gambling, and general mischief, he rose to national fame as the general who defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans.
Jackson ran for president as a political outsider, championing the interest of common farmers and frontiersmen....
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English
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Meet the Knights of the Square Table, San Francisco's all-star chess team.
On their way home from a tournament in Europe, their plane makes a forced landing on a remote island in the North Atlantic.
Part survival story, part crime novel with a twist, here's what happens when six teenagers act on their optimism and attempt the impossible.
Teri Kanefield's awards and distinctions include the 2015 Jane Addams Children's Book Award for The Girl From...
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Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 3
Language
English
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The third installment of the Making of America series, Abraham Lincoln, tells of one of our most beloved presidents. Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky, growing up in a family considered "the poorest of the poor," Lincoln rose to become the sixteenth president of the United States. As president, he guided the United States through the Civil War, helped end slavery in America, and strengthened the federal government. Unlike other biographies,...
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Making of America volume 2
Language
English
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Unlike other biographies, the Making of America series goes beyond individual narratives linking influential figures to create an overarching story of America's growth that will deepen understanding of the country we live in today. This bundle featuring Susan B. Anthony, Thurgood Marshall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt focuses on some of the most notable names in equality and voting rights in America. Listeners will begin by learning about the life of...
10) The girl from the tar paper school: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
11) Susan B. Anthony
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Making of America (Abrams) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...
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Series
Making of America volume 1
Language
English
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Unlike other biographies, the Making of America series goes beyond individual narratives linking influential figures to create an overarching story of America's growth that will deepen understanding of the country we live in today. This bundle featuring Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson tells the story of American constitutional history from the founding of the nation through the end of the Civil War. Listeners will begin by...
Author
Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local, states would...
Author
Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of one of America's most controversial presidents traces his youth, participation in the Revolutionary War, nationalist perspectives, resolve to dismantle the national bank, and discriminatory actions against black and Native Americans.