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1) The School for the Insanely Gifted

Author

Elish, Dan

Pub. Date

2011

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

670L

Physical Desc

289 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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Eleven-year-old musical genius Daphna Whispers embarks on a global journey to find her missing mother, only to uncover a shocking secret about the Blatt School for the Insanely Gifted where she is a student.

2) The civil rights movement: then and now

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

America 50 Years of Change

Publisher

Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint

Pub. Date

[2018]

Lexile measure

1140L

Physical Desc

64 pages : illustrations, some color ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the main concerns of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and how those have evolved since; what's changed for the better, what might be worse, and where do we go from here.

3) The Trail of Tears: the story of the Cherokee removal

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Great journeys)

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Language

English

4) New York

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

It's my state!

Pub. Date

2011

Edition

2nd ed.

Physical Desc

80 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Language

English

5) Galaxies

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Kaleidoscope

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

6) The sun

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Kaleidoscope

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

48 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

7) The Black Sox scandal of 1919

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Cornerstones of freedom

Pub. Date

2007

Lexile measure

890L

Physical Desc

48 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Language

English

8) The Battle of Gettysburg

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Cornerstones of freedom. Second

Pub. Date

2005

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

9) The Watergate scandal

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Cornerstones of freedom. Second

Pub. Date

2004

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Details the events of the scandal called Watergate, including the major players, how the facts were uncovered, and the way in which the events ultimately reaffirmed basic principles of the Constitution.

10) Louis Armstrong and the jazz age

Author

Elish, Dan

Series

Cornerstones of freedom. Second

Pub. Date

2005

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

890L

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

11) The great squirrel uprising

Author

Elish, Dan

Pub. Date

1992

Physical Desc

ix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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With the help of Sally, a sympathetic ten-year-old human, Scruff the squirrel leads a consortium of squirrels and birds in a blockade of New York's Central Park to protest the litter there.