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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was . . . ? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb’s discovery, as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Anne’s life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding, and the legacy of her diary.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics. But he forged a sound all his own—and a look that was all his own, too. With curled lip, swiveling hips, and greased...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young listeners are presented with the facts in this entertaining Who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Our bestselling series is fit for a queen!
The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in history.
The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Find out about the real Ferdinand Magellan in this fun-to-read biography about the poor boy who grew up to be a bold explorer who set out to circle the globe.
La vida del explorador Fernando de Magallanes, que fue de una niñez pobre a ser un explorador audaz que se lanzó a darle la vuelta al mundo.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Biografía de la esclava que escapó la esclavitud y arriesgó su vida para ayudar a otros esclavos a huir hacia la libertad.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Biografía de Mark Twain, autor, aventurero, piloto de barco de vapor en el río Mississippi, minero de oro, escritor de periódicos y viajero incansable.
An introduction to the life, times, and works of the celebrated 19th-century American author.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Discute la vida de Tomás Jefferson, autor de la Declaración de Independencia y el tercer presidente de los Estados Unidos.
Discusses the life of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States.
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