Jim Murphy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist: An account of the disease that ravaged eighteenth-century Philadelphia, written and illustrated for young readers.
1793, Philadelphia: The nation’s capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown…
This dramatic narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on...
1793, Philadelphia: The nation’s capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown…
This dramatic narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A description of the Cardiff Giant mystery in which a man in upstate New York buried a ten-foot-tall, petrified model of a man, which was discovered by well diggers a year later, and set into motion a money-making spectacle.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A hair-cutting machine, a used gum receptacle, jumping shoes, and more of the strangest inventions ever!
A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. A pair of protective eyeglasses for chickens. These are just three of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the last two centuries. Some, such as the mustache guard, made perfect sense when they first appeared. Others were considered just plain silly....
13) Blizzard
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murphy takes listeners back to the American Civil War to tell the terrible yet extraordinary story of the Battle of Antietam. With the entire world watching, two armies met in Maryland in 1862. The Union needed a victory. The Confederacy hoped to continue its success. When the smoke cleared, 23,000 men were dead or wounded--and the momentum had shifted to the Union.
19) Inside the Alamo
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. Includes biographical sketches and quotations of some of those involved.