Don Brown
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sibert Honor Medalist · Kirkus' Best of 2015 list · School Library Journal Best of 2015 · Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list · Horn Book Fanfare Book · Booklist Editor's Choice
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
138 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Shot in the Arm is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who historically popularized...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Boods For Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to Thomas Edison by describing the thirst for knowledge that marked his childhood, his humble beginnings, and his frequent trips to the library before he began dreaming of innovations to improve the world.
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Machines That Think! explores machines from ancient history to today that perform a multitude of tasks, from making mind-numbing calculations to working on assembly lines to guiding spaceships to the moon. Included are fascinating looks at the world's earliest calculators, the birth of computer programming, and the arrival of smartphones. Contributors discussed include Muhammad ibn Musa-al-Khwarizmi, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Bill Gates. From...
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A city ruined. In once quiet residential streets, two armies battle, driving people into cellars and basements with little food or water. No lights or heat. Dwindling medical supplies. Shells and bullets deliver cruel, random death to the young and old, men, women, and children.
This is Mariupol, a Ukrainian city and early target of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bordering Russian-occupied territory, the coastal city seemed doomed to a defeat that...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With the war getting closer to her home with each passing day, Dolley Madison fears that the time has come to move away, but refusing to let the English destroy her portrait of George Washington, she takes it with her and saves a piece of American history in the process. .
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
12) The good lion
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
132 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of rocket technology, from ancient Chinese rockets, the "bombs bursting in air" during the War of 1812, and Russia's Sputnik program.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Author
Publisher
Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the Titanic, describing the people who built it and its tragic demise during its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, as told through first-hand accounts and detailed illustrations of the events as they happened.