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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Mike Pesca, host of the ... Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way ... What if the U.S. boycotted Hitler's Olympics? What if Bobby Riggs beat Billie Jean King? What if Bucky Dent popped out at the foot of the Green Monster? What if Drew Bledsoe never got hurt?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly,...
Author
Publisher
HarperSan Francisco
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago Michael Baigent and his colleagues stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. His bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (with co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh) became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Newly arrived teenaged immigrants describe their experiences in America, recount traditions of their native countries, and present short stories, poems, recipes, and artwork. Also provides interviews with native born American teenagers who share their family histories.
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Follows explorers Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to seek out -- and stake out -- the fabled Northwest Passage. They traveled from Missouri through uncharted territory to Oregon, fighting rivers, suffering sunstroke, befriending Indians, and surviving hunger, fatigue, and sickness. Includes excerpts from the original journals, the first written account of the area west of the Mississippi.
12) Planet earth
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Questions and answers explore the shape and structure of the Earth, continental drift and plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, oceans, and other aspects of our world.
13) Physical forces
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Questions and answers introduce such physical phenomena as force, motion, magnetism, heat, and sound.
15) Plant life
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Uses a question and answer format to discuss the structure and function of plants.
16) Ecology
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Questions and answers present information about the distribution of plants and animals, the relationships among living things, and the food chain.
19) Space & planets
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Questions and answers explore various aspects of astronomy, including the planets, stars, and space exploration.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author guides readers through the writing process, and includes examples from his own works, outlines for writing fiction and nonfiction, and excerpted pages from the author's writing notebooks.