Search Results You are viewing: Politics And Government Nonfiction For Older ReadersSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. Year Sort by Relevance,Author Sort by Relevance,Title Sort By Stoplight Sort By Title Display 10 items Display 15 items Display 20 items Display 25 items Display 30 items Display 35 items Display 40 items Display 45 items Display 50 items 1 each from this page1 each from all results 15 total titles found Page 1 of 1 View page of 1 1 Total Price: $315.60 * Simply add a title by clicking the . * Your Discounted Price Becoming a House Representative [Who's your candidate? Choosing government leaders]by Nelson, Maria BTSB Prebound(Gareth Stevens, 2016) BTSB #: 670270 Available Dewey: 328.73/NAges: 8-12 AR: 6 MG Genres: Subjects: United States.|bCongress.|bHouse Legislators United States - Politics and government Summary: An introduction to the House of Representatives, including who is eligible, how one is elected, and more. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 17.34 * 0.00 +- Becoming a senator [Who's your candidate? Choosing government leaders]by Nelson, Maria BTSB Prebound(Gareth Stevens, 2016) BTSB #: 670269 Available Dewey: 328.73/NAges: 8-12 AR: 6 MG Genres: Subjects: United States.|bCongress.|bSenate Legislators United States. - Politics and government Summary: Explores the process of becoming a senator. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 17.34 * 0.00 +- Bringing down a president : the Watergate scandal by Balis, Andrea BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2019) BTSB #: 087092 Available Dewey: 973/NAges: 10-14 AR: 7.3 MG+ Lexile: 940 Genres: Subjects: Nixon, Richard M.|q(Richard Milhous),|d1913-1994 Presidents Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 Summary: A re-telling of one of the biggest scandals to rock our nation, the trials and tribulations of the Nixon Administration during Watergate. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.98 * 0.00 +- Brown v. Board of Education : a fight for simple justice by Rubin, Susan Goldman BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2016) BTSB #: 769393 Available Dewey: 344.73/NAges: 10-14 AR: 7.1 MG Lexile: 980 Genres: Subjects: Brown, Oliver,|d1918-1961 - Trials, litigation, etc Topeka (Kan.).|bBoard of Education - Trials, litigation, etc Segregation in education - Law and legislation - United States African Americans - Civil rights Summary: In 1954 one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the 20th Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Tells the stories behind the ruling and the people responsible for it. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.26 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Close calls : how eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death by Spradlin, Michael P. BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020) BTSB #: 841156 Available Dewey: 973.09/CAges: 9-14 Genres: Subjects: Presidents - United States - Biography - Miscellanea Presidents - United States - Miscellanea Presidents - Assassination attempts - United States - History Near-death experiences - United States Summary: With fast-paced accounts and supplemental archival photographs and archival materials, this book chronicles thrilling rarely-told stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- Dark sky rising : reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow by Gates, Henry Louis BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2019) BTSB #: 370741 Available Dewey: 973/NAges: 9-12 AR: 8.7 MG+ Lexile: 1200 Genres: Subjects: African Americans - History|y1863-1877 Reconstruction (1865-1877) African Americans - Social conditions|y19th century African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History Southern States - Race relations - History Summary: Gives an account of the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.98 * 0.00 +- Fault lines in the constitution : the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today by Levinson, Cynthia BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2017) BTSB #: 567428 Available Dewey: 342.7302/NAges: 11-15 AR: 8.8 MG+RC: 10.5 6-8 Lexile: 1110 F&P: Z Genres: Subjects: Constitutional law - United States Civics United States - Politics and government Summary: Examines the Constitutional origins of modern-day political problems and outlines solutions for these issues. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.96 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Give us the vote! : over 200 years of fighting for the ballot by Rubin, Susan Goldman BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020) BTSB #: 769567 Available Dewey: 324.6/NAges: 10-14 AR: 7.7 UG Lexile: 1040 Genres: Subjects: Voting - United States - History Political participation - United States - History Elections - United States - History Elections - Corrupt practices - United States - History Democracy - United States - History United States - Politics and government United States - Race relations - Political aspects Summary: Chronicles the corruption, activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles that have characterized U.S. electoral politics and continue to do so. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.98 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide In the shadow of liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives by Davis, Kenneth C. BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2016) BTSB #: 262831 Available Dewey: 920.0092/CAges: 8-12 AR: 8.2 MG RC: 10.6 9-12 Lexile: 1110 Genres: Subjects: Slaves African Americans Presidents - Relations with African Americans - History Slavery - United States - History United States - Race relations - History Summary: An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Never again : the Parkland shooting and the teen activists leading a movement [Gateway biographies]by Braun, Eric BTSB Prebound(Lerner, 2019) BTSB #: 147306 Available Dewey: 371.7/CAges: 9-14 AR: 6.7 MG Lexile: 1000 Genres: Subjects: School shootings - Florida - Parkland Political activists - Biography Teenagers - Political activity - United States Gun control - United States Summary: This biography of a movement and the teen activists behind it delves into the quest for gun safety legislation in light of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 32.38 * 0.00 +- Next president : the unexpected beginnings and unwritten future of America's presidents by Messner, Kate BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2020) BTSB #: 639763 Available Dewey: 973.09/CAges: 8-12 AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 1080 F&P: T Genres: Subjects: Presidents - United States - Biography Anecdotes United States - History Summary: An informative book for kids about the past and future of America's presidents. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- Roses and radicals : the epic story of how American women won the right to vote by Zimet, Susan BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2018) BTSB #: 982224 Available Dewey: 324.6/NAges: 10-14 AR: 8.3 MG Lexile: 1090 Genres: Subjects: United States.|tConstitution.|n19th Amendment - History Women - Suffrage - United States - History Suffragists - United States - Biography Summary: A history of the women's movement and the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment-giving women the right to vote in 1920. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streets by Pitman, Gayle E. BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019) BTSB #: 719568 Available Dewey: 306.76/NAges: 12-15 F&P: Z+ Genres: Subjects: Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969 Gay liberation movement - United States - History|y20th century Gay men - United States - History|y20th century Lesbians - United States - History|y20th century Summary: How and why members of the gay community took part in a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Describes American gay history leading up to the Riots, the Riots themselves, and the aftermath, and includes interviews of people involved or witnesses. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot by Conkling, Winifred BTSB Prebound(Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) BTSB #: 235489 Available Dewey: 324.6/NAges: 12-16 RC: 10.4 6-8 Lexile: 1100 F&P: Z+ Genres: Subjects: Women - Suffrage - United States - History Suffragists - United States - History Women's rights - United States - History Summary: The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.96 * 0.00 +- We are still here! : Native American truths everyone should know by Sorell, Traci BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021) BTSB #: 836056 Available Dewey: 973.04/NAges: 6-9 AR: 5.9 MG F&P: V Genres: Subjects: Native Americans - North America - History Native Americans - Social conditions - History Indigenous peoples - United States - Government relations Persistence Summary: A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.58 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! 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