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41) Dash
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Under a deadline from his editor, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story featuring a superhero whose ability to stink enables him and his sidekick, a sparrow named Little D, to fight crime in Central City.
Author
Series
Geeger the Robot volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Geeger the Robot is going to school. But not robot school...a school with kids, the human kind! Geeger isn't used to human ways, and his zany misunderstandings and overly literal responses to instructions lead to quite a few mishaps. He's starting to wonder if he can even make it until snack time! Will a bot made of wires, nuts, and bolts fit in with a classroom of kids?"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, An Imprint of ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the innovators of the Slinky, the James family. Follow the story from Richard James's childhood and engineering education at Penn State University where he married Betty Mattas to his naval engineering career at William Cramp & Sons and the accident with a tension spring that led to Slinky. The Jameses founding of the Spring and Wire Company and its success with Slinky, the company's foundering,...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
52) Communication
Author
Series
Publisher
QEB Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Tells the history of inventions that changed communication, from writing and postal systems to cellular phones and the World Wide Web"--Provided by publisher.
53) Karen's big top
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 51
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
Ladies and gentlemen...Karen is going to circus camp. And she loves it! She even makes a new friend, Jillian, who is a circus performer. Jillian tells Karen what it's like traveling from show to show. She even lets Karen help her with the circus animals. Karen has gigundo fun learning all the circus activities. But now Karen has...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1941, having a German plane crash near your house is exciting, but when twelve-year-old Peter Dixon and his friend Kim find a wounded German airman, Peter is faced with a dilemma--should he help take care of the man as Kim wants to do, or report him to the soldiers searching for him?
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
59) National Geographic Angry birds furious forces: the physics at play in the world's most popular game
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Another Angry Birds National Geographic mash-up! This fun, engaging paperback uses Angry Birds to explain the physics at work in the world--and behind the popular game. National Geographic's trademark science blends with Angry Birds' beloved entertainment to take readers into the world of physics. Rhett Allain, physics professor and Wired blogger explains basic scientific principles in fun, accessible ways; the Angry Birds come along for the ride...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First published in 1897, “Captains Courageous” follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled, rich young man who is accidentally washed overboard from a luxury ocean liner and is rescued by the Portuguese captain of a fishing boat and his hard scrabble crew. Kipling, drawing on his own experiences living in Vermont, fills this classic coming of age story with period details of late nineteenth-century American fishing, whaling, and railroad...