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670270
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

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.


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670269
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

Subjects: United States.|bCongress.|bSenate Legislators United States. - Politics and government


Summary: Explores the process of becoming a senator.


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087092
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

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.


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769393
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

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.


841156
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   


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.


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370741
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

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.


23.98 *

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567428
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

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.


769567
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

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.


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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

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.


147306
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

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.


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639763
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

Subjects: Presidents - United States - Biography Anecdotes United States - History


Summary: An informative book for kids about the past and future of America's presidents.


23.28 *

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982224
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

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.


6.50 *

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719568
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+

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.


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235489
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+

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.


23.96 *

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836056
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

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.


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