Suzanne Lieurance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant, survives a terrible fire at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories.
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Students will act out the story of Paul Revere Jr., whose father is in exile after warning Hancock and Adams of the approaching British. The young Paul Jr. and his friend, Thomas, must be brave and resourceful while their families are away. This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to...
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English
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Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family's restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Readers follow Harry Yakamoto...
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English
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Romance writing is a billion-dollar-a-year industry. Authors are busy creating new titles every single day because hungry readers have been known to gobble up as many as forty new romance novels every month. Author Suzanne Lieurance shows aspiring writers how to write a sweeping tale of epic romance.
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Six exciting authors from the United States and Canada share stories from their personal lives. Come along and experience what it's like to prepare for a hurricane in south Florida, start out on a European adventure with two small children and a husband in tow, or swim in a clay pit in Texas (hint: if Grandpa comes with you, be sure he keeps his mouth closed when jumping in). You'll even get tips for finding four-leaf clovers, plus, you'll learn what...
6) The Reveres
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English
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In The Reveres: A Family Forced Apart, Paul Revere, Jr. must defend his home while his mother and sisters flee Boston and join his father who is in exile after warning Hancock and Adams of the approaching British. The young Paul, and his friend, Thomas hunt squirrels and scare away intruders. They must be brave and resourceful, and when their families return, it is clear that they have become young men.
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the people and events connected with the 1911 fire in a New York City sewing factory that killed 146 people and led to reforms in legislation regarding workplace safety.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the impact on American society and history of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, which prohibited any use of alcohol except for religious or medicinal purposes.
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English
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If you enjoyed the stories in our first “Snapshots” book, you're sure to be delighted with these new stories, where six exciting authors from the United States and Canada share snippets of their personal lives. Plus, you're sure to recognize something of yourself and your own life in every one of these "snap shots" from real life.
Travel down under and learn about one writer's dark and not so handsome roomie. Reminisce about the days before cars...