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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A farm-working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Muñoz Ryan. Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions;...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Las vacas del granjero Brown descubren una máquina de escribir en su establo y empiezan a hacer ultimatumes. Cuando el granjero no responde, los animales van en huelga.
8) Uprising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
12) Clic clac meuh!
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Language
Français
Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca is thrilled to spend the day at a real movie studio, and when a super, spectacular opportunity presents itself, she is quick to volunteer. But how will this scene play out? Then, on a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation--and her climbing skills to rescue someone in a dangerous spot. But a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too....
16) Strike two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Haley's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Gwen is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
Lula Viramonte anhela ser una persona a la que nadie pueda ignorar. Por eso quiere ser directora de en un circo ambulante mexicano. Pero perseguir los sueños es difícil cuando hay que trabajar en la cosecha de uva en Delano, California; cuidar a la madre enferma y a los hermanos, evitar que se desate el temperamento volátil de papá. Entonces Lula conoce a Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong y a otros activistas por los derechos de los agricultores y...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Las vacas del granjero Brown descubren una máquina de escribir en su establo y empiezan a hacer ultimatumes. Cuando el granjero no responde, los animales van en huelga.
20) PENpal: 4
Language
English
Description
El pato granjero = Farmer duck: A kind and hardworking duck suffers at the hands of a lazy farmer. When he nearly collapses from overwork, the rest of the animals come to his aid.
El Año Nuevo chino de Li = Li's Chinese New Year: Li and his classmates celebrate the Chinese New Year by creating masks of their favorite animal from the Chinese zodiac, but which animal should Li choose?
Augusto y su sonrisa = Augustus and his smile:
Voy a comerte!...
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