Michael Teitelbaum
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Big foot! Yeti! Does this creature exist?
High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. With topics based in science, history, and social studies, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading...and always ask for more!
Formidable footprints found!...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Armored, weaponized, and able to navigate different terrains, the Humvee has been used by the U.S. military since the 1970s and continues to be a standard vehicle used in military operations. Soldiers in the field tell readers what it's like to operate Humvees in the field, and introduce them to the newest military vehicle, the MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Sam had been dying to go on a class field trip to the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the museum. But now, as he lay inside a sarcophagus with the closed lid blocking out all light, he began to panic. What would it feel like to spend eternity inside a tomb? Was there anything worse? Sam was about to find out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Nina had just missed her one chance to be on the hottest TV talent show around-Singing Superstar! But then fate intervened and provided another stage for her to show off her talent, a stage far from the TV cameras. Some say that fame comes at a price. Nina was about to find out just how high that price can be!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Trapped in an amusement park fun house, a fire raging, and no way out...Leo told himself it was just a scary dream and that was all! But was it? Or was it a warning of something to come? Leo was about to learn that sometimes, dreams are born out of real, live nightmares!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It had started out as one of the most boring family vacations ever for Melanie and her brother--a trip to a dusty old inn. But all that changed when Melanie heard that the place was haunted. And then, she suddenly found herself alone, trapped in a hidden room...with a skeleton!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Jake and his friends visited the town's old, abandoned cemetery on Halloween night, he was a little anxious. But when Jake saw the gravedigger through the heavy fog, and then the gravestone with the name of a living person carved onto it-a person he knew-his anxiety turned to terror!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jacob and Rich were excited about the chance to explore the old, abandoned ghost town. But they'd barely begun to walk the town's streets when they heard a strange voice whisper, "Get out." It was a warning they should have listened to, especially before they went into the dark, abandoned gold mine.
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Michael S. Teitelbaum is a Wertheim Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and senior advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York. Until 2011 he was vice president of the Sloan Foundation. His previous books include The Global Spread of Fertility Decline, A Question of Numbers, The Fear of Population Decline, and The British Fertility Decline.
How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in...