Boris Kulikov
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
2) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Lexile measure
1000L
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.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
Shows Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity -- including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.
7) Max's dragon
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Many unusual and unexpected things happen while Max plays with his invisible dragon.
8) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Three eraserheads that live with a boy in the land of pencils, paper, rulers, numbers, letters, and drawings become trapped in one of his pictures while trying to correct mistakes.
10) Max's math
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustration ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
12) Max's castle
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy.
15) Betty Lou Blue
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Teased by other children because of her big feet, only Betty Lou can save her tormenters one snowy day.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Howard dreamed of discovering a mummy, ... especially a royal mummy in its tomb, complete with all its treasures. When he was seventeen, he took a job with the Egypt Exploration Fund and was sent to Egypt to learn about archaeology and excavation sites. And his mummy hunt was on. Howard discovered many amazing artifacts, but he searched for years before coming upon the most famous mummy of all, King Tut"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
[Twenty-fifth anniversary edition].
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.
19) Come home, Angus
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
