Gail Herman
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Themes: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo Books. In 1981, the world is moving forward, especially for Rob Baker. He's starting his first job at a record store. Plus, excitement abounds when a woman is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time. Rob's family situation reflects the changing times too. Can he and his family withstand the resulting pressures at home? Or will the stress prove too much for them to handle?...
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childrensElibrary
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English
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June 20, 1997. History is being made in the Los Angeles Forum. And thousands of men, women, and children are there to watch it. Thousands more will tune in on TV. Why? It's the first game of the Women's National Basketball Association - and a brand-new era in women's sports. Here is the inside story on the teams and the players of this groundbreaking new league. Read about Lisa Leslie and Rebecca Lobo - once Olympic teammates, now opponents. Discover...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Exhausted at the end of her busiest time of year, Fira, a light-talent fairy, must cope with an illness among the fireflies and train three rambunctious new fairies so that other Never Land fairies can do their work.