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Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
xx, 133 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn,...