Jeri Ferris
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
22 cm : 64 pages.
Language
English
Description
Abigail Adams lived through the Revolutionary War and became the First Lady of the second president of the United States. Though women of her time could not vote, govern, or own property, Abigail believed that women should not be ruled by laws they did not make. Although she did not see these rights come to women, she never gave up talking, writing, and perhaps most important, believing that women were equal to men. Her courage and strength enabled...
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.