Leonard Everett Fisher
1) Galileo
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and discoveries of the noted mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, whose work changed the course of science.
4) Anasazi
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of the Anasazi Indians.
7) Cyclops
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Describes the encounter between the cyclops Polyphemus and Odysseus and his men after the end of the Trojan War.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.
10) William Tell
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the legendary Swiss folk hero was forced to shoot an apple from his son's head by the tyrannical Austrian governor Gessler.
13) The Wailing Wall
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history of the Jewish people in Palestine and their activities around the First and Second Temples the site of which is now marked by the Western or Wailing Wall, with an emphasis on events before 70 A.D.
15) The hero Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple, brief retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
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