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""In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." -Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the U.S. since the Constitution was signed. In the United States, the spread of the postal service went hand in hand with the spread of democracy and transportation. As settlement spread west, communication became even more important to let distant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
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1010L
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Read about the incredible playoff games that basketball fans will never forget. Clutch performances and shocking finishes have helped make the NBAplayoffs one of the most thrilling spectacles in sports. The biggest moments, from buzzer-beaters to last-second defensive plays, are all here in vivid detail.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
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980L
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The sports world is full of epic comebacks, upsets, chokes, and clutch performances. The most memorable buzzer-beating baskets, double-digit comebacks, and unexpected meltdowns are all here alongside vivid photos and lively writing from award-winning sports author Matt Doeden. From racing legend Man o' War's only career loss in 1919 to the 2017 Super Bowl's incredible finish, sports fans will have plenty to digest. Doeden also writes about the science...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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The current political climate has left many of us wondering how our government actually operates. Sure, we learned about it in school, but if put to the test, how many of us can correctly explain the branches of government? The history of politics? The differences and connections between local government and federal government? Enter How to Be an American. While author and illustrator Silvia Hidalgo was studying for her citizenship test, she quickly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
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When modern baseball fans think of African American players, they may think of Ken Griffey Jr., Derek Jeter, or Jason Heyward. But what about the black stars who didn't play Major League Baseball? In the early 1900s, professional baseball was mostly segregated - black players were not allowed in the Major Leagues. The Negro Leagues provided an alternative for African American players for decades before MLB began to integrate in 1947.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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280L
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Turns out there's a whole lot more than just a log on the bottom of this lake, a frog and a fly, and eventually a fish! An adaptation of the traditional folk song, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea," with additional repetition and tongue twisters. Includes sheet music. --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
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In 2015, when Ohio State University took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoff championship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. The game was the most-watched program in the history of cable television in the United States. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first ever college football game, no one predicted the national spectacle that a college football championship game would...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
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As the first female African-American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has been breaking down all kinds of barriers in the world of dance. But when she first started dancing -- at the late age of thirteen -- no one would have guessed the shy, underprivileged girl would one day make history in her field. Her road to excellence was not easy -- a chaotic home life, with several siblings and a single mother, was a stark contrast...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Joe Louis was born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama and raised in a Detroit tenement. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world. In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to blacks yearning to participate in the American dream. In Germany, Max was made to symbolize...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
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What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
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Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 980L
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On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach of Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. If Trudy reached it successfully, she would be the first female swimmer, and only the sixth person ever, to do so.
13) Dolley Madison
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Bloomsbury
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IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Dolley Madison had a strong will and unique personality that made her one of the most memorable First Ladies. From hosting parties for Washington D.C.'s social and political elite to saving a portrait of George Washington before the British burned down the White House in the War of 1812, Dolley did it all!"--
14) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
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Doubleday
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"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...
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Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
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1000L
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This guide answers these fiery, burning questions with the marshmallows of information. There is handy advice on how to join Paul Revere s spy ring at the Green Dragon Tavern, how to enlist in General Washington s rebel army, and how to summon the strength to storm a British gun battery when you haven t eaten for three days.
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Legends volume 3
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Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
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1130L
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From Wilt Chamberlain to LeBron James, from the Celtics dynasty led by Bill Russell to the Bulls dynasty led by Michael Jordan---here is the ultimate hardwood-court handbook of NBA champions and superstars.
17) Dodger boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn't they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying focus on boyfriends and obsessing about marriage? Couldn't one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, and go to the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a draft...
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The United States of Sports takes kids on a first-of-its-kind journey across the U.S. with stops in every state in the Union. Super cool maps with unique hand-illustrated icons show where all the great sites can be found, including arenas, stadiums, halls of fame, championship golf clubs, the greatest ski mountains, Olympic cities, and more. Each state's Greatest Moments and homegrown heroes are pro led, and we wouldn't forget to run down all the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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1070L
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"Behold the power of women! These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies. Growing up in a crime-plagued, gang-infested neighborhood, Venus and Serena Williams were led to believe their environment was not a place where dreams could come true. It took a relentless determination,...
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 14
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"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
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