Dorothy Hoobler
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the history of the Great Pyramids of Giza, including how they may have been built, their original purpose, and other ancient pyramid structures around the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than...
Author
Series
Samurai detective series volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
Author
Series
Samurai detective series volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
Author
Series
Samurai detective series volume 4
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.