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"The product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George Murdoch learned to fight early in life, fending off both race-baiting bullies and the demons of a dysfunctional home. Couch surfing all through high school and most of college, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued giant played football, ran drugs, and bounced at clubs to try to survive. After a false start with the WWE, he eventually became Snoop Dogg’s bodyguard and traveled the world with the hip hop legend,...
2) Tiger Woods
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Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the talents, successful career, and ethnic background of the golfer Tiger Woods.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
4) Derek Jeter
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[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the personal life and baseball career of the young man from Michigan who plays shortstop for the New York Yankees.
5) Tiger Woods
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c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a biography of the professional golfer, who at the age of twenty-one, became the first person of color and the youngest player to win the Masters Golf Tournament.
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c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the author's bestselling beginning reader Barack Obama: United States President.
7) Tiger Woods
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Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the life and accomplishments of the young, racially mixed golfer who destroyed his competition in his first major pro tournament, The Masters, and broke records that had stood for many years.
8) Tiger Woods
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c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Discusses the life and career of Tiger Woods, including his childhood, early fame, success as the greatest amateur golfer ever, and achievements as a professional player.
10) Derek Jeter
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces the life and accomplishments of champion baseball player Derek Jeter, a shortstop for the New York Yankees who set American League records for runs scored (1998) and hits (1999).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
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Remnick's major contribution to the river of Obama books is a sharply honed work of "biographical journalism" unique in its multiplicity of perspectives, contextual richness, and astute analysis of the president's "political, racial, and sentimental education." A Pulitzer Prize winner and editor of the New Yorker, Remnick draws on hundreds of interviews to convey the challenges Obama faced in the forging of a self and recognition of a calling. In...
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Meet famous music star Drake! In this engaging title, readers will follow Drake's career from his role on Degrassi: The Next Generation to his move into music and first album Thank Me Later to four American Music Awards and three Grammy Awards! Drake's charitable work is also featured. Table of contents, map, 'Did You Know' fact boxes, a 'Snapshot' graphic with vital information, glossary, and index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards...