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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Most people can name some famous artists and recognize their best-known works. But what's behind all that painting, drawing, and sculpting? What was Leonardo da Vinci's snack of choice while he painted Mona Lisa's mysterious smile? Why did Georgia O'Keeffe find bones so appealing? Who called Diego Rivera "Frog-Face"? And what is it about artists that makes both their work and their lives so fascinating-to themselves, to their curious neighbors, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Highlights the lives of women including Cleopatra, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, Isabella I, Elizabeth I, Nzingha, Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, Victoria, Harriet Tubman, Tz'u-Hsi, Gertrude Bell, Jeannette Rankin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Eva Peron, Wilma Mankiller, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Rigoberta Menchu.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions
9) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions
10) Albert Einstein
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize
11) Charles Darwin
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives of the presidents, focusing on their roles as parents, husbands, pet owners, and neighbors, while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, fears, and sleep patterns
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the work and predictions of those who have speculated about or claimed to see the future, from the oracles of ancient Greece to such modern figures as Edgar Cayce and Jeane Dixon
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the Boston Tea Party, including the events leading up to the party, its immediate effects on American-British relations, and why it is still an important event today.
20) M is for music
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An alphabet book introducing musical terms, from allegro to zarzuela
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