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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller! Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation--Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston--risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most powerful ruler; and secured a new future for the United States of America. For two years before the Louisiana Purchase, the nine principal players in the deal watched France and the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 252 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Author
Language
English
Description
As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death. She travels with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris that Patsy learns about her father's liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love with her father's protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Her choices will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and achievements of the architect, bibliophile, president, and author of the Declaration of Independence.
11) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a nation. A man renowned for many talents, writing was one of the major activities of the stateman's life, though much of his best, most influential writing--with the exception of the letters he wrote up to his death, numbering approximately 100,000--was done by 1789, when Jefferson was just forty-six....
15) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, as he comes from the Virginia wilderness to lead in the establishment of a new government, and becomes an ambassador, and finally president.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors...
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, presidential stepdaughter KC Corcoran and her friend Marshall investigate the theft of a box of toy horses given to Jefferson by his grandchildren.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
To heal the hurt pride of Thomas Jefferson as Congress makes changes to his Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin tells his friend the story of a hatmaker and his sign.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of President Thomas Jefferson's quest to locate and assemble the first full mastodon skeleton in American history."--
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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