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Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes. But what happens when it ends up where it doesn't belong like in the Pacific Ocean? How does it affect ocean life? Is it dangerous? And exactly how much is out there? A team of researchers went on a scientific expedition to find out. They explored the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have collected. The plastic has drifted there...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"No picture accurately resembled him in the minute traits of his person . . . there was an expression of his face that no painter had succeeded in taking."-London's New Monthly Magazine in 1790
George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. Worse...
Author
Publisher
Milbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Panamanian golden frogs aren't just cute, little, and yellow. They're also the national symbol of Panama. But they started to disappear about fifteen years ago. What's killing them? Could it be a change in their habitat? What about pollution? Might it be a result of climate change? Follow a team of scientists working to save these frogs and protect frog populations worldwide in this real-life science mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this book is to de-sanitize US history, present it as it actually was, and help kids come to an understanding of how people put up with the sounds, smells, and yuckiness of history.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sally M. Walker works alongside scientists as they excavate colonial-era graves and examine fragile 400-year-old skeletons. See what they can determine about these early Americans-a ship's captain, an indentured servant, and others-from studying their bones.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Antarctica is a land of frozen secrets, with scarcely a handful that have been completely divulged. Join Sally M. Walker as she explores both historical and modern-day scientific expeditions to the continent.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On July 28, 1996, human bones washed up on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of an unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?