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Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yellowstone is the oldest national park in the United States! It is home to famous features, such as Grand Prismatic Spring and Old Faithful. In this leveled title, readers will explore the park's landmarks, geology, human history, and wildlife through engaging text and vibrant photos. Along the way, special features highlight the park's climate, animal species, notable locations, and more. The book ends with a full-spread feature that includes a...
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Rocky Mountain National Park is full of wildlife! Birds, mountain lions, elk, and more make homes inside the park. Readers will learn about these animals and other unique aspects of the park through the leveled text and crisp photos of this engaging title. Chapters highlight the park's formation, human history, popular activities, and conservation. The book concludes with a two-page spread that puts key facts, a timeline, and an animal food web...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Two nations and a mother panda work together to nurture a 'precious treasure' in the remarkable true story of a celebrity panda cub and his life at the Smithsonian National Zoo - and beyond"--
225) A boy and a jaguar
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The renowned cat conservationist reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech disorder, describing how he only spoke fluently when he was communicating with animals and how he resolved at a young age to find his voice to be their advocate.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Based on the New York Times bestseller, UNTIL TUESDAY, this full-color picture book filled with adorable photographs tells the story of the amazing service dog who helps former U.S. Army Captain Luis Carlos Montalv�an overcome his combat-related wounds"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth...
232) The Trail of Tears
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately,...
234) Kansas City Royals
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A profile of the Kansas City Royals, including history, high and low moments, famous players, anecdotes, and more.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With three Super Bowl victories between them, Patrick Mahomes and Peyton Manning are two of the most talented quarterbacks in NFL history. Follow their careers and compare their stats to choose a winner."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ms. Hannah wears dresses made out of potholders and collects garbage instead of throwing it out. Plus she's making A.J. be partners with smelly Andrea. This is the worst art class ever!
237) Brown girl dreaming
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
238) St. Louis Cardinals
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the St. Louis Cardinals, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, quotes, anecdotes, and a glossary.
239) Cheaper by the dozen
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1975, c1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Presents a memoir by two siblings from the Gilbreth clan in which they look at the lives of their parents, Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, discuss Frank and Lillian's careers as industrial engineers and work with scientific management, and share the adventures the couple encountered raising a family of twelve children.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays,...