You wouldn't want to
Author
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Lexile measure
IG 960L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An addition to a humorous series looks at the darker side of exploring the world with Sir Francis Drake--a dangerous voyage that would last for three long years.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
IG 830L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get ready...it's the 1920s, and more and more women around the world are being given the right to vote. But women have not always had it so good. Let your great aunt Edith and her cousin Mabel tell you what it was like to be a suffragist.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
IG 860L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready...as a young man in Civil War America, you are about to become involved in a highly dangerous underwater arms race. You could get into very deep water in the first submarine..."--Cover back.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
IG 870L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get ready...as the daughter of a local official, you're about to get a glimpse of the high life, working as a servant in an enormous castle. It sounds grand, but things are about to get very hot in this medieval castle.
17) You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship!: a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
IG 890L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
IG 900L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
23) You wouldn't want to be a nurse during the American Civil War!: a job that's not for the squeamish
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
IG 930L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A study of nursing care during the Civil War, the problems with caring for the sick and the injured, and the medical advances that have been made after the war.
24) You wouldn't want to be a secret agent during World War II!: a perilous mission behind enemy lines
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
IG 820L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains what it was like to be a British secret agent working behind enemy lines in France during World War II, describing the training, equipment, and techniques used by spies and the danger they faced during their missions.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Franklin Watts library edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography about the young French woman who, inspired by voices, led the French army to victory over the English, was burned at the stake for witchcraft, and eventually was declared a saint.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
IG 920L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the realities and risks of attempting to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, from the perspective of a member of a team of British mountaineers in 1952.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Franklin Watts library edition.
Lexile measure
IG 810L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the skills needed to become a ninja, including practicing with weapons everyday, listening and not asking questions, and keeping identity secret.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012, 2012.
Edition
Franklin Watts library edition.
Lexile measure
IG 1200L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the disadvantages to being a Pony Express rider, including riding in all weather, natural disasters, and disease.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
IG 920L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the hazards to being one of the many builders during the construction of the Hoover Dam, including the tough living conditions, the extreme heights, and the diverting of a river.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
IG 900L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the English physicist whose work on the laws of motion and gravity and invention of calculus had great influence on the understanding of the physical nature of the universe.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
IG 830L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the story of Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook who became known as "Typhoid Mary" when she infected many New Yorkers with the deadly disease.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
IG 870L
Language
English
Description
A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.
This lively, interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character and revel in the gory, dark, horrific side of life throughout important eras in history. --Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains the principles of gravity, discussing the effect that gravity has on the Earth and on the human body and the consequences when gravity is either increased or decreased.