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(0)Ellen Jackson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple, rhyming text introduces eleven animals and the surprising tools they use, including an octopus that hides in a coconut, a dolphin that protects its nose with a sponge, and a deer that bedecks its antlers with heaping piles of mud and grass. Secondary text offers further information about these crafty creatures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The universe is rapidly expanding. Of that much scientists are certain. But how fast? And with what implications regarding the fate of the universe? Ellen Jackson and Nic Bishop follow Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team to Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, where they will study space phenomena and look for supernovae, dying stars that explode with the power of billions of hydrogen bombs. Dr. Fillippenko looks for black holes--areas...
Author
Language
English
Description
Travel back in time to meet eleven children, each from the turn of a different century. Each century of the second millennium is brought vividly to life by a child of the period. Intriguing facts complement their stories, and richly detailed illustrations serve up a visual feast that holds a few surprises for the careful observer.
7) Cinder Edna
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, and the United States.
12) Beastly babies
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Introduces all sorts of mischievous baby animals--and the grown-ups who love them no matter what"--
14) Earth Mother
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations with advice on how to make the world more perfect.
16) The seven seas
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a geography lesson, a child takes an imaginary journey to each of the seven seas, including the Brown Sea which is made of chocolate, and the Pink Sea which has flamingos.
19) Scatterbrain Sam
Author
Publisher
Talewinds
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.
20) The Chefs Collaborative cookbook: local, sustainable, delicious recipes from America's great chefs
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This cookbook celebrates The Chefs Collaborative's work by featuring more than 115 original, delicious recipes from some of America's best chefs as well as providing practical, relevant information from experts in the sustainable food community on how concepts like sustainable, local, organic, and clean translate into cooking and eating at home"--