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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
Series
Hands on volume 6
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Provides instructions for crafts that children can do either alone or with an adult.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children, mostly from New York and other cities of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED ("It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!" --Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations--games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen shares her struggles with unassuming charm and intelligence: the frustration of not being able to express herself-- like wandering though a dense fog-- and the happiness of finally apprehending light breaking through the mist. The joy she felt when she first made the connection between the word water and the cold, wet liquid that poured over her fingers, comes spilling onto the pages with girlish, infectious enthusiasm. Written when she was...
12) Indian chiefs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.
14) Atomic energy
Author
Series
A Grosset all-color guide volume 9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Explains the physics of atomic energy, describes the different types of reactors, and discusses the various peacetime uses of atomic power.
15) Nicotine
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Thinking about smoking--The history of tobacco--The health effects of nicotine and smoking--Teenage trends and attitudes--Nicotine addiction--Exploring additional resources.
17) Men of Athens
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
The deeds and thoughts of ancient Greeks are reflected in a series of stories which serve as a vehicle for the portrayal of Athens' history and philosophy.
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