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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Angel Island Immigration Station explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Amid the horrors of World War II, Irena Sendler was an unlikely and unsung hero. While many people lived in fear of the Nazis, Irena defied them, even though it could have meant her life. She kept records of the children she helped smuggle away from the Nazis' grasp, and when she feared her work might be discovered, she buried her lists in jars, hoping to someday recover them and reunite children with their parents. This gripping true story of a woman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Who Belongs? takes a bracing look at a frequently debated question, as personal as it is political. Rising migration flows, escalating global conflicts, faltering democracies, and polarizing politics have made the question “who is in and who is out?” one of the most urgent issues of our time. With the goal of improving mutual understanding and achieving meaningful shifts in personal and policy-level discussions, the author holds a critical lens...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancae is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xvi, 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xiii, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
14) Oskar Schindler
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. : 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Jewish Americans
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, and Canada.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Jews in America, looking at the three waves of Jewish persecution and immigration from South America, Germany, and Eastern Europe and Russia, and features discussion of Yiddish culture, as well as profiles of notable Jew ish Americans.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Scythians and Sarmatians, horse-riding nomads of Eurasia, who lived contemporaneously with the ancient Greeks and Romans"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the many issues facing teens of multiethnic descent, including discrimination and the search for ethnic identity in an unsympathetic culture.
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