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"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists--including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The autobiography of Rosa Parks, the Afro-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest led to a year long boycot of the bus system which ended with a federal injunction against segregation on buses.
8) Hoops
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...
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Publisher
Artia Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's...
13) All aboard!
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Publisher
Western Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Animals ride in a variety of conveyances--limousines, buses, taxis, and boats--across the board pages.
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Series
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Western Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
The wheels of the school bus go around and around, the horn beeps, the wipers slide back and forth, and the students move up and down in this illustrated version of the traditional song. Includes an accompanying panel of sound effects for the reader.
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Publisher
Phidal Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
Description
A collection of three stories about school buses. A bus named Sandy has trouble finding the way to school, Barnaby the school bus goes on a field trip to the city, and Toby gets nervous about going to the garage when he has a flat tire.
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
20) The long ride
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.--
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