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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume using the metric system.
12) Shapes
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Isolates the artistic element of shape, discusses what visual ideas and effects can be conveyed by different shapes, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
13) Leonardo's horse
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.