Catalog Search Results
21) Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Describes the history, geography, economy, culture, religion, language, sports, arts, and people of Mexico
Author
Series
Description
Follow the adventures of the four endearing March sisters as they journey into young womanhood. There's Meg, at sixteen the oldest, who longs for a rich life full of beautiful things and free from materail want. Next comes Jo, the willful and headstrong tomboy, who plans to become a writer and who retires to the attic when "genius burns." Gentle, music-loving Beth, "the pet of the family," is delicate and sweet. And fashionable Amy, the youngest of...
25) Colombia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, natural resources, culture, religion, and people of the South American country of Colombia.
27) Black holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses how we know about black holes, how they affect matter around them, and what would happen if you got inside one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
31) Utah
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Utah is located in the mountain region of the west-central United States. The state's unique terrain includes snowcapped
mountains, sparkling lakes, deep valleys, barren salt flats, and remote deserts. Its beauty can be experienced year-round.
Learn more in Utah, one of the titles in the Our American States series.
32) Alabama
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alabama is known for its amazing places and friendly people. The landscape offers a beautiful mix of vast forests, sandy coastal plains, and bountiful farmlands. Learn more in Alabama, one of the titles in the Our American States series.
33) Idaho
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Idaho is known for its natural beauty. It is a mountainous state, filled with breathtaking peaks and magnificent forests and waterways. Learn more in Idaho, one of the titles in the Our American States series.
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twenty-six amazing women; twenty-six amazing stories. From Amelia Earhart, pilot and adventurer, to Zora Neal Hurston, writer and anthropologist, learn about the hardships and triumphs that inspired each woman to change the world around her. Detailed collages and illustrations draw from various events in the women's lives.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Appears on list
Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...