Deborah Kogan Ray
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her grandfather's white friends. Sarah was smart and good at languages, so she was able to link the worlds. As she became older, this made her a great leader. Sarah used condemning letters, fiery speeches, and her autobiography, Life Among the Piutes, to provide detailed accounts of her people's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph-this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the South...
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Earl Douglass and his discovery of the first almost complete skeleton of an Apatosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam Earth.
Author
Publisher
Francis Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After losing part of his arm in the Civil War, John Wesley Powell's passion to explore the natural world would not be deterred and he kept his dream of exploring the vast Colorado River and all its wonders, including the Grand Canyon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco during the 1850's gold rush, Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tony Johnston's THE BARN OWLS recalls in quiet tones the memory of a barn that has stood alone in a wheat field for one hundred years at least. The owls have nested there and have hunted in the fields and circled in the night skies as time slowly slipped by. Every night, as the moon rises, a barn owl awakens and flies out to hunt. Feathered against the endless starry night, he swoops and sails to the darkened wheat field below and catches a mouse...