Marissa Moss
2) Amelia's back-to-school survival guide: featuring vote 4 Amelia and Amelia's guide to babysitting
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two stories with Amelia being a friend saving a friend's reputation and starting a babysitting service.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills" and tries to figure out what it means that she likes shop class better than home economics.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Talibah and her ten-year-old brother, Adom, visit modern-day Egypt with their historian-father, they become involved in a mystery surrounding Hatshepsut, a woman pharoah, and Senenmut, architect of her mortuary tomb, as well as their own deceased mother.
Author
Series
Max Disaster volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Did aliens build the pyramids? Will a magic love potion bring Mom and Dad back together? And what do school science, mummified apples, and alien erasers have to do with it? In a second zany, jam-packed graphic novel, Max jots down his worst fears and best brainstorms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers an illustrated look at the life and career of Allan Pinkerton, with a special focus on the specifics of how he successfully thwarted a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore before he was sworn in as president.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Explores the impact England's taxation had on the colonies, with emphasis on the Stamp and Tea tax, to explain why the tea parties happened, their importance, and their role in the Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of Ida Lewis, explaining how she learned to tend a lighthouse from her father, discussing her responsibilities as the lighthouse keeper, and describing her heroic rescues.
10) Home sweet Rome
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other artists and scientists under suspicion for being forward thinking individuals.
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 4
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mira explores the past of her familiar Bay Area, discovering layers of history in San Francisco and learning the real reason her mother has been working to change history"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To spread gossip, you need to know stuff and, you need to know how to tell it in an exciting way--but you have to be careful, since gossip is never nice, is the summary of the story.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the 1600's the Inquisition ruled Rome and all painting had to obey its rules. One man refused. With his revolutionary style and fierce independence, Caravaggio dared to unchain art, putting himself in deadly peril.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amerlia thought that the only thing better than a best friend was two best friends. But then they come together and she's not sure if any of them are friends. Will Amelia be able to have more than one best friend?
Author
Series
An ancient world journal volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Galen describes his life as a slave in Rome under the Emperor Augustus. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...