Claire Rudolf Murphy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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More than any other, one song traces America's history of patriotism and protest.
Everyone knows the words to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." What most don't realize is that this iconic song has been a beacon of change for hundreds of years. Generations of protesters and civil rights pioneers have created new lyrics, beginning in royalist Britain and continuing through conflicts in colonial times, the American Revolution, the suffragist and labor movements,...
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English
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"Martin and Bobby follows the lives and final days of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, showing how and where their work intersected and how their initially wary relationship evolved from challenging and testing one another to finally "arriving in the same place" as allies fighting poverty and racism"--
4) Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions
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Language
English
Description
How would the most cherished stories of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam be different if women were the active central figures?
This ground-breaking collection of short stories brings to life the women-daring, brave, thoughtful, and wise-who played important and exciting roles in the early days of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Join Esther as she stands against injustice and her king to save her people, Aisha as she leads hundreds of men into terrifying...
10) Gold star sister
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1996,c1994
Language
English
Description
While watching her grandmother cope with the last stages of cancer, thirteen-year-old Carrie comes to know her better through letters she and her long-dead brother wrote to each other during World War II.
11) Daughters of the desert: stories of remarkable women from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions
Publisher
SkyLight Paths Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English