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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Andrew Jackson, including his military service, early political career, and key events from Jackson's administration including the Indian Removal Act and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. "--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to John Quincy Adams, including his political career as a Massachusetts state senator, US senator, US secretary of state, minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, and US president. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. "--Amazon.
3) John Adams
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to John Adams including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to the life of Calvin Coolidge including his early political career and key events from Coolidge's administration including the Kellogg-Briand Pact and Coolidge Prosperity. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the private life and political career of the grandson of the ninth president of the United States who was elected to be the twenty-third president in 1888.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to George W. Bush including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration including the Iraq War, the No Child Left Behind Act, and Hurricane Katrina. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to John F. Kennedy including his military service, early political career, and key events from Kennedy's administration including the Cold War, space race, Bay of Pigs invasion, and Cuban missile crisis. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
8) Bill Clinton
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Bill Clinton including his early political career and key events from Clinton's administration including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 2000 Camp David Summit, and the Iraq Liberation Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
9) Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Barack Obama including his early political career and key events from Obama's administration including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Affordable Care Act, and the Clean Power Plan. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Theodore Roosevelt including his early political career and key events from Roosevelt's administration including building of the Panama Canal, creating the Department of Commerce and Labor, and winning the Nobel Prize. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
11) Ulysses S. Grant
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers Ulysses S. Grant including his military service and key events from Grant's administration including several scandals, as well as the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to George Washington, including his military service, early political career, and key events from Washington's administration including creating the first presidential cabinet and creating a financial plan for the new nation. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."-- From publisher description.
13) Grover Cleveland
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Provided by publisher.
14) James Buchanan
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan including his early political career and key events from Buchanan's administration including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states prior to the American Civil War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
15) Andrew Johnson
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the life and career of the statesman who became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looks at what the presidents to be who were alive at various dates were doing at that moment, including serving in government, working in different fields, studying, or being a child, and wonders what the future presidents that are alive today are doing.
18) Chester Arthur
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to Chester Arthur including his early political career and key events from Arthur's administration including improvements to the US Navy, and the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers Dwight D. Eisenhower including his career in the US Army and key events from Eisenhower's administration including the Korean War, the struggle for civil rights, and the forming of NASA. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Provided by publisher.
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