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801) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
804) Monticello
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of Thomas Jefferson's dream home.
805) Pocahontas
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
806) Emperor
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Felicity is worried about Ben, her friend and father's apprentice who has been injured in George Washington's army, and must decide how to help him while being turned away from her friend Elizabeth's house.
809) Unthinkable
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it's a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He's foreseen that a billion people could die--unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set...
810) Spies: Mary Bowser
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"YOU are Mary Bowser, a spy in Virginia. Freed from slavery, you have teamed up with Elizabeth "Bet" Van Lew to form a spy ring of powerful, brave women. You are as quick with your weapon as you are with your mind, and you work secret messages and poisons into everyday objects. Hidden in plain sight, you and your ring change the outcome of the Civil War"--
811) Nat Turner
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A biography of the slave and preacher who, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves, led a major revolt in 1831.
815) Five famous writers
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota
819) No greater glory
Author
Publisher
Samhain Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Amid the carnage of war, he commandeers far more than just her home. Widowed plantation owner Emaline McDaniels has struggled to hold on to her late husband's dreams. Despite the responsibilities resting on her slender shoulders, she'll not let anyone wrest away what's left of her way of life--particularly a Yankee officer who wants to set up winter camp on her land. With a defiance born of desperation, she defends her home as though it were the child...
820) The Hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' under the care of a doctor. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading . In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it and one is living it.
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