James Cross Giblin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centered on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both. The strengths and weaknesses of the man and the system that permitted his rise are explored in...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses some of Egypt's most famous artifacts and monuments, including the pyramids, the Rosetta Stone, and, especially, the Great Sphinx, presenting research and speculation about their origins and their future.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jason is stuck with the most boring subject for a research paper- Alexander Fleming, the scientist who invented penicillin. Then he comes across the story about how Fleming rescued Winston Churchill from drowning. But, the story circulating on the Internet might not be true.
Jason must learn everything he can about Fleming and Churchill in order to solve this puzzle. Readers will learn various research tips, including how to tell fact from fiction...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."