Sally M Walker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years old when he died. And he was European," Owsley concluded. But how did he know?
Just as forensic scientists use their knowledge of human remains to help...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Minerals are fascinating resources that have a variety of uses. A diamond is a mineral that is sought after for its beauty. Salt is a useful mineral that adds flavor. But do you know what minerals are made of? Or how to identify a mineral? Explore the amazing world of minerals in this book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The sun, furnaces, and ovens all make heat. But have you ever watched matter expand when it is heated? Or seen how different kinds of matter conduct heat? Now you can! Explore heat with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! People, animals, machines, and wind all make sounds. But have you ever seen how sound waves move? Or made a sound wave bounce? Now you can! Explore sound with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Solids, liquids, and gases are the three states of matter. But have you ever made matter change from one state to another? Or seen how even invisible matter takes up space? Now you can! Explore matter with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The sun, lightbulbs, and flickering fires all bring light to our world. But have you ever watched light rays moving? Or seen how light rays reflect off objects? Now you can! Explore light with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Soil can be found almost everywhere on Earth. Sand is a soft soil that is found in deserts. Loam is soil that is great for growing plants. But how are these types of soils different? And how are they made? Explore the amazing world of soil in this book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Fossils give us a window to the past. Water, sediments, and pressure work together over time to preserve the shape of things that lived long ago. Studying these ancient plants and animals tells us more about our own existence. Have you ever searched for fossils? Unearth some in this book.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland. He named his house St. John's, and for nearly eighty years, it was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil. Men and women lived and worked within its walls. Babies were born. Last breaths drawn. St. John's walls witnessed the first stirrings of the great struggles that would dominate the continent for the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Did witches always ride brooms? No! In fact, long, long ago, witches crept about on tiptoe. On Halloween, they would scare children and cast spells . . . but always from the ground. No witch ever thought of flying—no witch until Druscilla. Druscilla was an old witch with the loudest, creakiest knees anyone had ever heard. But she was determined not to let anything spoil her element of surprise. One Halloween, after many failed attempts at sneaking...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
You know that magnets hold pictures on a refrigerator. But have you ever found a magnet's north pole? Or turned an ordinary paper clip into a magnet? Now you can! Explore magnetism with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Rocks can be made of many different minerals. By looking at rocks closely, we can tell where they were formed and what conditions they were created in. How do we know these things? And how do we tell different types of rocks apart? Learn about ways to research rocks and what they can teach us about our world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Where does electricity come from? How does it make a computer run or a light bulb shine? Electricity is a form of energy that can be used in many ways. Starting with the tiny particles that make up atomselectrons, protons, and neutronsthis book highlights the basics of how electricity works and furthers understanding through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
16) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Why do some things heat up quickly while others don't? How can heat cause matter to change form-from solid to liquid to gas and back again? Heat cannot be seen, but it can easily be felt. Looking at different objects' molecular makeup, this book describes the fundamentals of heat and furthers understanding through a series of easy experiments.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbor. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts.
Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat...
18) Matter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
20) SuperCroc Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
110 million years ago, a lush river flowed through the heart of what is now a desert in Africa. Lurking in the depths of the river, a humungous monster waited for its prey to come to the river's edge to drink…and to die. More than 40 feet long, this giant ancestor of the crocodile stalked and killed dinosaurs. In 1997, dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno discovered the enormous reptile fossil named SuperCroc. Learn how modern science uncovers the ancient...