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(0)Bridget Heos
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
Fly is fed up with everyone studying butterflies. After all, flies go through metamorphosis too -- and they are so much cooler! They flap their wings 200 times a second, compared to a butterfly's measly five to twelve times. Their babies -- maggots -- are much cuter than caterpillars (obviously). And when they eat solid food, they even throw up on it to turn it into a liquid. Who wouldn't want to study an insect like that?
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin spider silk--and to weave a nearly indestructible fiber. Learn how this amazing material might someday be used to repair or replace human ligaments and bones, improve body armor, strenghten parachute rope, and even tether an airplane to an aircraft carrier!...
6) Lady Gaga
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of performer Lady Gaga.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Mustache Baby wants to be a Santa's helper like Beard Baby, but after making a workshop full of toys he decides to keep them for himself and lands on the naughty list.
10) What is the sun?
Author
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
13) Mustache Baby
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 380L
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about baby Billy, who is born with a mustache, and his parents, who must figure our if it's a Good-Guy mustache, or a Bad-Guy mustache"--Provided by publisher.
16) Birds
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 980L
Language
English
Description
"Just Like Us! Birds gives young readers an up-close and personal look at how birds do things that are remarkably similar to the way humans do"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Tackling the issue of global warming head-on for a teen audience, Bridget Heos examines the science behind it, the history of climate change on our planet, and the ways in which humans have affected the current crisis we face. It's Getting Hot in Here illustrates how interconnected we are not just with everyone else on the planet, but with the people who came before us and the ones who will inherit the planet after us. This approach to one of today's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"A boy washing the dishes wonders where the water goes, and the story follows water drops as they travel to through the city sewer system, treatment plant, and back again"--
