Sally M Walker
1) Electricity
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses electricity and currents, including instructions for how to make a circuit and see static electricity at work.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mason-Dixon Line's history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country's history from its founding to today. We live in a world of boundaries—geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America's most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal–winning
...Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The members of the Vowel family have a hard time talking until their children, Alan, Ellen, Iris, Otto, and Ursula, are born, and when one of them gets lost one day, it takes their Aunt Cyndy to fix the problem.
6) Sea horses
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of sea horse as well as efforts to protect them.
8) Dolphins
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Introduces these aquatic mammals by describing their physical characteristics, life cycle, behavior, relations with humans, and threats to their survival.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of baseball star Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American in twentieth-century major-league baseball.
10) Sound
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
11) Earthquakes
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Magnetism
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill.
Language
English
13) Soil
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes what soil is, how it forms, where it is found, and why it should be taken care of.
14) Heat
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the processes used by scientists to discern the identity of the Kennewick Man and what this nine thousand-year-old skeleton revealed about the arrival of humans in North America.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
17) Manatees
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, behavior, and conservation of manatees, also known as sea cows.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
104 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23x29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Antarctica, describing the history of its exploration and the current research efforts underway to investigate its geography, climate, and fossils of the past, and monitor the effects of global warming on its glaciers.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
72 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of the largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay.