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1) The rancher
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Two feuding ranchers discover a deep connection in an old silver mine beneath their land in this romance by the New York Times bestselling author.
Now that she's completed her engineering degree, Rachel Ford Morgan is eager to prove herself to her father and four brothers who run Morgan Ranch. She gets the chance when she discovers fault lines around an abandoned silver mine at the edge of their property. But the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--Provided by publisher.
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Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In [this book, the author] presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind--Amazon.com.
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Questioneers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Rosie is working with Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters, on designing a new invention, but when her designs keep failing, Rosie starts to lose hope until her friends Iggy and Ada offer some help
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"Nikola Tesla was a physicist, scientist, electrical engineer, and world-renowned inventor whose accomplishments faded into oblivion after his death in 1943. He was omitted from most history books, while his colleagues and competitors (including Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi) and their successes are still remembered and celebrated. Tesla was undeniably eccentric and compulsive; some considered him to be somewhat of a "mad" scientist. But in...
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably...
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Español
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"La historia de Sylvia Acevedo es un recordatorio deslumbrante de la necesidad de soñar a lo grande, uno que inspirará a lectores de todas las deades. Su trayecto de Girl Scouts y Hed Start a trabajar en el Laboratorío de Propulsión a Chorro de la NASA y más ayudará a forjar un camino para los jóvenes que se sienten atraídos a sueños aparentemente imposibles."--Back cover. "The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Introduces the world of the space scientists and robotics engineers who design and build robots to be used in space exploration, with firsthand accounts of life as space robot engineer, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes photos.
12) Nikola Tesla
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Simple text and illustrations look at the life of inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s. After the tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire that...
15) Henry Ford
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles.
Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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"Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could...
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