Judith Bloom Fradin
1) Hurricanes
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Step into the eye of the storm. Follow the action, from the first news reports of a hurricane called Katrina gathering out at sea, to eyewitness accounts of those who survive the epic devastation she finally wreaks along the Gulf Coast. Then look back at the history of these catastrophic storms and examine the science of hurricanes. How do they form? Why do they rage through the same regions? Which were the deadliest hurricanes in history? And how...
3) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides first-person reports of those who've witnessed the violent rage of a volcanic eruption.
4) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The words and photographs of people who have witnessed tsunamis, along with the science, history, and protection efforts surrounding this watery disaster.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Most people know Jane Addams (1860-1935) as the force behind Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States. She was also an ardent suffragist and civil rights activist, co-founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. But it was her work as a pacifist that put her in the international spotlight. Although many people labeled her "unpatriotic"...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in upstate New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and spent 12 years as a slave on deadly Louisiana coastal plantations.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Story of Ida B. Wells, one of the great, yet one of the least known, civil rights leaders. A promised journalist, she is remembered for her leadership in women's voting rights, the NAACP, and anti-lynching.