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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Honest and heartfelt, frank and funny, Aly's story is enhanced with never-before-published photos, excerpts from the personal journals she's kept since childhood that chronicle memorable moments with her teammates, and hard-won advice for readers striving to rise above challenges, learn to love themselves, and make their own dreams come true.
Author
Publisher
Triangle Square books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings to paint a vivid picture of a headstrong and principled...
Author
Publisher
WordSong, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
c2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
325 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In this adaptation for middle graders based on her bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's extraordinary life inspires. Her achievement serves as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, was a young girl when she...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. Primarily known for her investigation about the Standard Oil Trust for McClures Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings, she also wrote biographies of famous people, most notably Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of herlandmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs"--
Author
Publisher
Propriometrics Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
".Through the Pacific Northwest forests and along the rugged coastal shores of California, Wolf Girl: Finding Myself in the Wild is a young environmentalist's coming-of-age story about learning, discovery, and survival. Wolf Girl takes readers on Doniga's journey: from the wilderness immersion school where she was taught by Indigenous elders and wildlife trackers, to hitchhiking across the Pacific Northwest, to Alaska, where she fell in love with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy crazy seventeen-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire, with her mum and their deaf white cat in a house with a mint-green bathroom and a refrigerator Rae can't keep away from. She's also just been released from a psychiatric ward. My Mad Fat Diary is the hilarious, harrowing, and touching real-life diary Rae kept during that fateful year.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions to the field.