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2) Megamachines
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Would you rather be run over by a monster truck or a supercar? Would you drive a dragster or a tank? These diabolical situations and more will have you running for cover as you plunge into a series of fiendish questions and answers. Brilliant author, Helen Greathead, has plucked some rubber-burning, tire-screeching situations from the world of planes, trains and cars, and mashed them up into brain-tastic challenges. All you have to do is choose!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame.
Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family — along with all the other Jewish families — into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away.
Then Rena and her mother ended up working
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Series
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Why do people build with arches? Why do we use stone in some places and wood in others? What's a foundation? How do you plan a road or construct a bridge? The answers to these questions can help gamers in Minecraft and in the real world! Through building their own structures and systems in Minecraft, young readers and gaming fans will learn about the past and present of human engineering, with a vision toward the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival.
World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic...
7) Physics
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mixes science and art to bring the world of physics to life, with a gaggle of wacky characters to explain the building blocks of our universe.
8) Ponies
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the characteristics of different types of ponies at a beginning reader level.
Reading level: for kids who are starting to read
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A.A.Milne's classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work by A.A.Milne includes poems for children which feature Pooh helping Christopher Robin with his schoolwork (if helping is the word). It is an evocation of childhood, through the eyes of the six-year-old Christopher Robin. Featuring E.H.Shepard's original decorations, Now We Are Six is a heart-warming and funny introduction...
10) Orcas
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every orca pod has its very own theme song! Musical elements include whistles, clicks, and pops. "Singing" is the orca way of communicating, navigating, and hunting. This read offers young children the chance to get in tune with the worlds largest dolphin species.
11) Porcupines
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dont let their furry appearance fool you. These rodents bear needle-like quills when threatened, and arent afraid to use them. A single animal may have up to 30,000 or more quills!
12) Lobsters
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Did you know that clawed lobsters can be right-clawed or left-clawed? Every baby is born with two cutter claws. Then one cutter claw eventually develops into a crusher claw, which determines handedness. Beginning readers will want to get their hands on this ocean animal profile!
Author
Publisher
CICO Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
50+ activities to entertain kids at home, in the classroom and even on holiday! Let's get crafty! You will never be bored again with the brilliant things to make and do in Boredom Busters. The book is divided into five themed chapters: Art, Craft, Science, Food and Travel. Art Activities shows you how to create pretty pictures using homemade paint, recycled crayons and even coffee filter paper and shaving cream! In Craft Activities, reuse milk cartons...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Elephant Doctor of India is the heart-quickening true story of a boy who loved elephants and grew up to forge a maverick path to help them. Dramatic, moving, and packed with fascinating elephant facts, young readers will find inspiration and excitement on every page. No matter what age you are, if you love elephants, you will love this book."—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and Kakapo Rescue...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of suspenseful nonfiction such as books by Steve Sheinkin, this is a page-turning narrative about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and pacifist who became an unlikely hero during World War II and took part in a plot to kill Hitler. Written by two-time National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, author of Sold and Never Fall Down and coauthor of the young reader’s edition of I Am Malala.
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Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In African Icons, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This is a great beginner's guide to pre-colonial Africa."
-Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
Meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa thousands of years ago and changed the world.
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17) Chameleons
Author
Publisher
Belwether Media
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces jaguars to young readers through leveled text and related photos"-- Provides by the publisher
18) Platypuses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces jaguars to young readers through leveled text and related photos.
19) Parrots
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Readers learn all about pets with fur, feathers, fins, scales, and shells--and how to find and care for the perfect pet for their family. From cats to dogs to guinea pigs to birds to fish to snakes and more, this reference book introduces kids to a wide variety of family-friendly pets.
Playful puppies! Cuddly kittens! Beautiful birds! In the next book in the hit Little Kids First Big Book series, readers learn all about pets with fur, feathers, fins,...
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