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(0)Bonnie Christensen
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
2) I, Galileo
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the Italian scientist from a first-person perspective that surveys his achievements while covering his world-changing ideas about a heliocentric solar system and his imprisonment for heresy.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
"Elvis Presley, perhaps better known as the King of Rock and Roll, left an amazing legacy on the worldwide music scene. But before Elvis became The King, he was just a shy kid growing up in a poor family in Mississippi. From an early age singing in church, Elvis used music as a form of hope, a means of getting by. He soon created his own style that brought together classes and races and lifted people's spirits. His mark was indelible. He remains the...
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Born into a traveling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
Description
Two friends plant seeds in their community garden, then water, weed, wait, and dream as the plants grow until they can be harvested. Includes facts about gardening and harvest festivals.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 830L
Language
English
Description
At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old boy sets off with his father from their farm in Tennessee to join the Confederate forces on their way to fight at Gettysburg. Told in the form of diary entries.
