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1) I get wet
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Renowned science author Vicki Cobb has concocted just the right formula for making scientific principles easy for even the youngest kids to understand.
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
5) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Black Beauty was born, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to always try his best, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends and suffers from the cruelty and greed of human masters. But Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and kindness. This enchanting story about the life of a horse in Victorian England has captivated and enthralled generations of readers. Step back...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Author
Series
All creatures great and small volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II, the Yorkshire veterinarian muses on past adventures through the Yorkshire dales, visiting with old friends and introducing scores of new characters--both human and animal.
9) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles 18 of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities --
12) A moveable feast
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway's memoir of Paris in the 1920s. It is filled with portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...
14) To be a slave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Paired with histori
18) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, 16-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script.
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