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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Make way for Malala Yousafzai! It's Malala like you've never seen her before! Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an activist and trailblazer. The third book in the exciting You Are a Star nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai focuses on Malala's lifelong mission to bring educational equality and justice to all - especially young girls.Maithili...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Crown Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring letter to two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai, that is both a show of support and a call to action for girls around the world"--
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The effort to gain women's rights in the United States began at a convention in New York State. But it was in the Western United States--Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho--where the women's movement found its first great triumphs. In this book meet 25 Westerners who led the way."--Back cover.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
"In 1933, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put...
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