Describes the efforts of Andrew Carnegie to build public libraries as a way of improving community life in Pittsburgh and other places. This description may be from another edition of this product.
easy interesting non fiction biography for elementary readers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
as a 9 & 10 year old 4th grader, my daughter's school reading contract required her to read a certain # of fiction & non fiction bks @ her specific reading level, & then successfully pass Accelerated Reader (AR) tests for vocabulary & content; most girls are naturally more interested in reading fiction than non fiction, which is the case w/my daughter; the libraries @ both elementary schools that my daughter attended PreK - 4th grade had much wider selections of fiction than non fiction, making it harder to find non fiction of interest for my daughter to read; biographies are a natural choice, but, besides that, offerings tend to be mostly dry scientific & nature topics; I found this bk whilst hunting for titles to meet requirements wo/putting us both to sleep, as she generally read each non fiction title twice, including once out loud to me, before taking AR tests!: Andrew Carnegie is not one of the biographies you see over & over in series bks for kids, & it was of particular interest because it was general American community & period history, as well as related to libraries, which interest my daughter, due to her love of reading; it is the only one in its series we have read, but it was enjoyable & informative, rather than boring
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