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1) Building big
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Focusses on the connections between the planning and design problems and the solutions that are finally reached when building bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
3) Ecology
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text provide information about ecology in general, specific ecosystems, and our changing understanding of life around us.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
144 p. ; col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sally M. Walker works alongside scientists as they excavate colonial-era graves and examine fragile 400-year-old skeletons. See what they can determine about these early Americans-a ship's captain, an indentured servant, and others-from studying their bones.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
196 pages : llustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She's not worried, though--she's battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true" with...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
14) Mirage
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated home. In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
222 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When living with her mother's abusive boyfriend becomes unbearable, fifteen-year-old Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, runs away and struggles to find her own identity while living on the streets of Gotham.
Author
Edition
First edition.
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
Flatiron Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
19) Tomboy
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.