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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Join Mater, the heart and soul of Radiator Springs, and all your favorite characters from the world of Cars as they take you on a fun-filled ride that will have your family roaring with laughter. Includes Rescue squad Mater, Tokyo Mater, Heavy metal Mater, El Materdor, and others.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"These fabulous books are a must for any young reader with an interest in vehicles and machines. Each book is filled with amazing machines, fun facts, jokes, and age-appropriate text in colorful boxes. This book takes a close look at building and construction machines including giant drills, excavators, cranes, and bulldozers. Find out which building machine is the mightiest of them all!"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and watched the clouds gather in the sky. A strong breeze shook the tree in front of his house, and Max saw two heavy twigs fall to the ground. So begins this story of a young boy's introduction to the joys of making music. Max picks up the sticks and begins tapping out the rhythms of everything he sees and hears around him-the sound of pigeons startled into flight,...
8) Snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Full-color illustrations and simple text introduce different types of snow to early readers, which includes soft, light, and heavy snow.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks!
10) Eva sees a ghost
Author
Series
Owl diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Eva Wingdale sees something large and white flying above her she is convinced that it is a ghost, although most of the other owls just laugh at her--until something large and heavy and white lands on the school roof.
11) Diggers
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A kindergarten-level introduction to diggers, covering their size, movement, role in the process of construction, and such defining features as their arms and buckets"--
12) I know a lot!
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Series
Formats
Description
Celebrates a toddler's increasing knowledge of the world, such as that rocks are heavy and flowers are light.
13) Trowbridge Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
This fascinating book takes young readers on a trip to a science lab where they will learn about the metric system. Simple text shows ways of measuring length (meters and centimeters), temperature (Celsius), and weight (grams and kilograms). Comparisons between key metric measurements and similar U.S. customary measurements, such as yards, inches, and Fahrenheit, help students understand the two systems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her...
16) Too much rain
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When heavy rain causes flooding, Katie Woo and her parents spend the night in a shelter.
17) Ships
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to ships. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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.
19) Trains
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Looks at the inner workings of a selection of railroad trains, including steam trains, electric trains, heavy-duty diesel trains, and high-speed trains, in a board book with lift flaps.