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(0)Stewart Ross
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines fourteen of the greatest explorers and expeditions in history and explains the impact they had on people's perception of the world, in a book with unfolding cross sections.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
3) Moon
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the space race, which culminated with the U.S. Apollo moon landing in 1969, and also discusses how the moon has impacted art, science, and literature throughout history.
4) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling, but inevitable, recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dicken's most memorable characters, including the vicious Billy Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger."--Youth Services Team, HPL.
Set in 1830s London, England. Oliver is born in a workhouse and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enchanting graphic novel about a feud, a friendship, and two girls forever changed. Based on the beautifully hand-crafted animated adventure, WolfWalkers, this graphic novel features an introduction and exclusive original art from film co-creator Tomm Moore and co-Art Director Maria Pareja. Watch the stunning, Golden Globe-nominated film available on Apple TV+ now.
In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a full-color cross-section of major monuments and buildings in ancient Egypt, and describes how they were built, the construction of the pyramids, excavation of a pharaoh's tomb, how ancient Egyptians lived.