Boris Kulikov
1) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Readers will learn about the dark side of a woman and her devotion to science--the politics of science, her depression, and the drive to succeed. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a woman in a field dominated by men.
2) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
6) Max's Words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.