Deborah Hopkinson
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality ... Hopkinson chronicles the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were demanding the right to vote. She explores the 1960s, which pushed equal rights and opportunities for women--both at home and in the workplace--even further, and then moves toward present-day...
Author
Publisher
Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fannie Farmer is a mother's helper in the Shaw house, where the daughter gives her the idea of writing down precise instructions for measuring and cooking, which eventually became one of the first modern cookbooks.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions of people almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Depicts Victorian-era artist, writer, and animal lover Beatrix, who is dismayed when a neighbor's guinea pig in her charge passes away unexpectedly.