Jim Gigliotti
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the career and early death of the kung fu instructor who became a world-wide legend as the star of the some of the greatest martial arts movies ever made.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn more about Napoleon Bonaparte, the decorated French military leader who conquered much of Europe in the early nineteenth century. Born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte felt like an outsider once his family moved to France. But he found his life's calling after graduating from military school. Napoleon went on to become a brilliant military strategist and the emperor of France. In addition to greatly expanding the French...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washingtoni Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe's ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story, The Raven, was a huge success, but his joy was overshadowed by the death of his wife. Poe devoted his life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Get ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola Tesla--part creative genius, part mad scientist, and 100% innovator. When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn't have much money, but he did have a letter of introduction to renowned inventor Thomas Edison. The working relationship between the two men was short lived, though, and the two scientist-inventors became harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let the illness...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Was Johnny Cash always the rebellious "Man in Black" that we remember him as today? Find out in this biography from the #1 New York Times bestselling series that takes us from Cash's childhood on an Arkansas cotton farm to his first days in rockabilly through his most famous years as a country music legend and icon of American songwriting. Due to his wide range of musical talent and an incomparable career spanning forty-nine years, Johnny Cash has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The world was fascinated and concerned. Dr. David Livingstone's 1866 expedition to find the source of the Nile River in Africa was only supposed to last two years. But it had been almost six years since anyone had heard from the famous British explorer. That's when a young American newspaper reporter named Henry Morton Stanley decided to go on his own expedition to find Dr. Livingstone. Author Jim Gigliotti chronicles the lives of both of these men...
15) Eli Manning
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
16) Smoke jumpers
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the life of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Prepare to be thrilled by an imaginary world where dinosaurs have been brought back to life and roam alongside humans in this Who HQ book all about Jurassic World! Discover the action-packed history of Jurassic World and how dinosaur fans of all ages came to love the series' movies, books, TV shows, and even theme park rides. From the 1990 Michael Crichton novel to the movies still releasing today, young readers will love stepping into this world...