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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The home state of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a land of rugged mountains, deep canyon lands, and majestic rivers. Utah and Mormon history are entwined, as so many early followers of the faith settled the region beginning in 1847. They preserved their values and heritage in the numerous temples, forts, tabernacles, and cemeteries that serve as historic sacred monuments for the modern church. Author and LDS member Andy Weeks explores...
Author
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief introduction to the construction of the huge sculpture carved into Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota, and to the four presidents represented there: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
11) Stonehenge
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces Stonehenge, describes how it was constructed, and discusses current and past restoration and preservation plans.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pryor delivers a rigorous account of the nature and history of Stonehenge, but also places the enigmatic monument in a wider cultural context, bringing acute insight into how antiquarians, scholars, writers, artists, and even neopagans, have interpreted the mystery over the centuries."--Front jacket flap.
15) Mount Rushmore
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the conception and execution of the giant monument to four American Presidents carved upon Mount Rushmore.
17) Capital
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of Washington, D.C., focusing on the National Mall, its monuments and surrounding buildings.
Author
Series
Goofballs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Badger Point School is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary, the statue of its founder, Simon Plunkett, goes missing but the Goofballs are quickly on the case, looking for evidence and following clues.
19) Thrust
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue-and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth...
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Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
El Monumento a Washington es un obelisco de piedra que está en Washington, DC. El monumento rinde tributo al liderazgo, la sabiduría y la fortaleza del primer presidente de los Estados Unidos. Descubre más en El Monumento a Washington, uno de los títulos de la serie Íconos Americanos
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