Laura L Sullivan
1) Pocahontas
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of a Native American chief, Pocahontas grew up during a time of incredible change in North America. This is her story, from her birth to her encounters with colonists, and finally her untimely death at the age of twenty-one. It captures her greatest achievements, as well as her role in the Powhatan tribe and later as a visitor in England. Told in simple, engaging words and accompanied by vibrant pictures, this is a story readers are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Present-day America owes its diversity to the men, women, and children who endured hardships to make America what it is today. Among these were the first immigrants. Many people traveled by boat, and perhaps the most famous immigrant-carrying boat was the Mayflower. This is the story of the Mayflower and what the voyage was like for the men, women, and children who traveled on it.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for one another when they are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers on the brink of World War II, Hannah, a distant relative hoping to be welcomed by the family, and Anna, sent to spy for the Nazis, both unexpectedly fall in love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The sense of taste helps animals determine what is delicious, and what is deadly. Animals have evolved a wide variety of taste preferences and abilities. For instance, an octopus has ten thousand taste buds on each one of its arms' suckers; a bison has a great knack for using taste to avoid toxic plants while grazing, and gorillas and chimps like sweet-tasting food. With interesting, easy-to-understand text and vivid pictures, this book explores the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Australian box jellyfish is the most venomous animal in the oceans, with the capability to kill a human in minutes. There are about fifty species of box jellyfish. Learn where they live, how they eat, how they strike, what happens to you when one stings you, and what creature is immune to its powerful poison.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
World War II was a difficult, frightening time for many people around the globe. In the United States, difficulties arose after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. People became suspicious of Japanese Americans living in the United States. As a result, many Japanese Americans were put into internment camps.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Charles Darwin. Readers will learn about Darwin's early life, personal life, and all about his contributions to science, natural selection, evolution, and common descent. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
9) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo was a great leader and a wise man. In this book, readers will uncover his life story-from his struggles with the US government and settlers in Arizona to the eventual surrender that made him a prisoner of war for the rest of his life-and understand his profound effect on the Apache tribe. Though he later became famous and traveled the country, he was never allowed to return to his birthplace. Through easy-to-read text and fascinating pictures,...
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reason: Amra was Muslim. It was the first sign her world was changing. Then Muslim refugees from other Bosnian cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When the tanks rolled into Bihac, bringing her own city under seige, Amra's happy life in her peaceful city vanished. But there is light even...
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 2
Publisher
Keywords Press, Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Elite party girl Yarrow, the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden, and Rowan, whose very existence is illegal, discover threads that bind them and could change Eden forever.