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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the evidence of dinosaurs with skeletal structures and feathers so similar to birds and why that is convincing many scientists that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This extraordinary true story of LUCA, our Last Universal Common Ancestor, the tiny organism that every unique life-form on Earth can be traced back to, breaks down scientific concepts for young readers.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. When Planet Earth Was New looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep...
Author
Publisher
Northland Press
Pub. Date
c1979
Physical Desc
viii, 65 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines the migration of people from Asia to America and their dispersion throughout the continents over the centuries, focusing on the development of culture and the interaction of people in the Southwest.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Roman charioteers scarfing wild boar dung to astronauts guzzling their own pee to today's kids spreading insect vomit on their toast, this humorous compendium is chock-full of history, science, and fascinatingly gross facts. Bug secretions coating your candy corn? Rodent poop in your popcorn? Physicians tasting their patients' pee? It's deliciously disgusting!"--
10) Life story
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2009], c1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.
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