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Jake Drake series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.
Author
Series
Martin Bridge volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Martin's back in two more stories. For their science fair project, Martin's team is going to help save the planet by organizing a beach walk. In the second story, Martin learns what it takes to score an A+ in teamwork and puts his knowledge of tools to good use as a volunteer at Bicycle Recycle.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Crime Scene Science that puts you inside the head, and the toolbox, of modern-day experts in crime solving. Slip under the yellow crime-scene tape to conduct your own experiments: you'll soon be detecting, inspecting, and connecting the dots of forensic science. Investigate rates of human decomposition; find out what makes fingerprints unique; identify handwriting traits; and discover the secrets of paper fiber analysis.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Megan, a popular and outgoing fourth-grader, is sure that the "perfect" new girl dislikes her because she is deaf, but persistence and a joint science fair project help Megan see that the two girls have something in common after all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II, Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman, and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network) Berlin, 1938: Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century -- splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays and essay fragments John McPhee wrote over the course of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why"--
A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing,...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"April 13, 1970: Two hundred thousand miles from Earth and counting, an explosion rips through Jim Lovell's spacecraft. The crippled ship hurtles toward the moon at three times the speed of sound, losing power and leaking oxygen into space. Lovell and his crew were two days from the dream of a lifetime - walking on the surface of moon. Now, they will count themselves lucky to set foot on Earth again. From "Houston, we've had a problem" to the final...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
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