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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
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Language
English
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Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"When scientist-in-the-making Madeline Little starts sixth grade, she soon learns that middle school is nothing like a perfect lab experiment--and that she now has to find the cure for her newly messed-up life"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin returns from the dead, moves into Victor Goodwin's downstairs apartment, and faces peril from vampires in Philadelphia, a pair of bike shop owners, and a shadowy figure known as "the Emperor."
9) Medusa
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Series
Publisher
Large Print Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
10) Stowaway
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth's crust, it's not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Although little folk are common characters in mythology, scientists had never thought they actually existed, until a team of archaeologists made a fascinating discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. But who exactly is Homo floresiensis? And through what lineage could we be related?
Author
Series
Olga volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Olga decides she would like to figure out what planet Meh is from and begins to conduct some research on space travel.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Captain Cal and his crew aboard the Silver Pig Intergalactic Probe Spaceship embark on another dangerous mission, this time to stop Professor Spitzer, a famous inventor turned mad scientist, from taking over the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old, bored with her life, imagines a more exciting one as a secret agent, but when she spends the summer on her aunt's farm, her stories become reality as she stumbles onto a real spy ring.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The metaphors we use when talking about the brain can limit our ability to think "outside the box" and perceive the real workings of the brain in all its complexity. Consider the many ways in which the computer metaphor, although popular, is a poor match for the human brain, and what scientists might miss by continuing to use it.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
The story of an old man's search for love is told through a constellation of events: the struggle to save a pond from pollution, the murder of a gallant scientist, and an exquisite but fleeting affair with the beautiful woman he sees in a bank line.
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