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1) Vote!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What does a college have to do with presidential elections? If it's the electoral college, a lot! Readers learn all about the electoral college and how it plays a part in our elections"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hilarious and timely tool to help kids learn how to tell what news is true and what isn't.
Can peanuts give you super strength? Were unicorns discovered on the moon? Did Martians really invade New Jersey? For anyone who has ever encountered outrageous stories like these and wondered whether they were true, this funny, yet informative book breaks down what fake news is, why people spread it, and how to tell what is true and what isn't. With quirky...
8) Australia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn fun facts about the fascinating country of Argentina, from its early history to its current politics and culture.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South Africa. He became the country’s first black president and went on to live his dream of change. This is an important and exciting addition to the Who Was...? series....
10) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation--The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Best friends Katie and Suzanne are both nominated for mayor of the fourth grade, and Suzanne wants to win so much that she starts spreading mean rumors, while Katie gets an inside look at the Cherrydale mayoral race.
15) Gandhi
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian political and spiritual leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How did the president get elected? How did he gain support? Find the answers to these questions and more in this title. Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, Important Dates section, index, and glossary also included.
19) Forbidden city
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ellie McDoodle is excited about starting a school newspaper and serving as editor, so when her friends and family convince her to run for class president--against her new crush, Jake--she is disappointed to have to give up the job temporarily, but is soon caught up in making posters and speeches and getting to know Jake better.