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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents home experiments demonstrating the properties of motion, including experiments using friction, inertia, and Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
7) Rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four new harrowing true stories of real kids who have survived extreme challenges and disasters recount the experiences of the young survivors of the Shark Attacks of 1916, the Peshtigo fire of 1871, and a box jellyfish attack.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle and her class visit with scientists from the past who explain their theories and the students utilize these ideas to design their own experiments for their upcoming science fair.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.
13) You too?
Publisher
Ink Yard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the personal essays of authors who have had #MeToo experiences, including Eva Darrows, Ali Novak, and Amy Zhang.
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents over one hundred experiments and activities for “awesomely gross” things to make, including glow-in-the-dark vomit, kitty-litter fudge, and zombie intestines.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recalls her experiences coming of age in Fascist Italy during World War II as she, along with her sisters, hid in a convent where she tried to come to terms with her new life while longing to be "just a girl."
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xxv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Culled from full-length autobiographies, the voices of ten slaves--all under the age of nineteen--describe the full range of slave experiences, from starvation, torture, and violence, to love, laughter, and family life.
18) Family pictures
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[c1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author traces his family's experiences immigrating to the U.S. to introduce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, explaining how it represents America's democratic values and discussing the importance of documents history.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marie Curie, renowned for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win in two fields (chemistry and physics), and the first woman to hold a chair position at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie for Kids details Curie's remarkable life, from her childhood under a repressive czar in Poland to her tireless work supporting herself through college to meeting her ideal match in scientist Pierre Curie to her revolutionary...
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