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Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Readers are introduced to the lives of warriors and protectors throughout history. They will examine how a medieval knight put on a heavy suit of armor, how a Roman soldier might have prepared for battle, what dangers a Samurai might have faced, and the emblems of an Aztec warrior.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
[He had] a fever that hovered around 104 degrees. His skin turned yellow. The whites of his eyes looked like lemons. Nauseated, he gagged and threw up again and again . . .
Here is the true story of how four Americans and one Cuban tracked down a killer, one of the word's most vicious plagues: yellow fever. Journeying to fever-stricken Cuba in the company of Walter Reed and his colleagues, the reader feels the heavy air, smells the stench of disease,...