Catalog Search Results
1) Barack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Description
The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic language, Andrea Davis Pinkney weaves the true story...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request