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1) Ecology
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographic illustrations provide information about ecology in general, specific ecosystems, and mankind's changing understanding of life.
3) Building big
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A companion book to the PBS television series about the creation of bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams, focusing on the connections between the main planning and design problems that had to be solved and the solutions that were ultimately constructed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the early Middle Ages including invasion by Germanic tribes, early Christian church, feudalism, Islam, the Byzantine period, and the Vikings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the late Middle Ages including William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest, the Crusades, European trade routes, the Black Plague, and more.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Draws from first-person accounts, journals, interviews and other primary sources to tell the true stories of over seventy young people from a variety of cultures who played a role in the making of the United States, including explorers, patriots, rebels, slaves, miners, and activists.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much--and how little--has changed for Black Americans since our country's founding.
13) The great fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to...
16) Black holes
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses how we know about black holes, how they affect matter around them, and what would happen if you got inside one.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Text and many photos, maps, and diagrams present the Second World War to young readers, from the war's origins in Europe through the War Crimes Trials and the aftereffects of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Also includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related Web sites.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons of the day.
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