Mary Kay Carson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
An activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that forever changed the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the Scientists...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A guidebook to exploring the solar system describes the history of space exploration where telescopes, satellites, and human missions lead to amazing discoveries, in a book with over twenty space-related activities such as mapping the Moon's surface.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
This book chronicles the efforts of Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International, as they try and save bat species from loss of habitat and white-nose syndrome.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Patrick is an Irish bellboy working on the Titanic to help his family back home. Sarah is a passenger excited to return to America. Neither of them knows that they are about to embark on the most dangerous trip of their lives. The unsinkable Titanic is not quite what Sarah expected. Instead of dining with movie stars, she finds herself having more fun in steerage with the family of her new friend, Patrick, a bellboy. He shows her all the secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text provide information on the rare Sumatran rhino, the world's smallest and most endangered animal on the planet.
"Story of how the endangered species breeding expert Terri Roth struggled for years to help a rare Sumatran rhino name Emi become a mother...Follow the roller-coaster ride of disappointment, scientific discovery, and success that led to the first Sumatran rhino calf born in captivity in more than a century. "
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to save countless lives across America's heartland, chasing one tornado at a time.
Robin Tanamachi has been captivated by tornadoes and extreme weather her entire life. When she realized people researched weather for a job, she was hooked. She now studies tornado genesis, or how tornadoes form, and what causes them to get...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The national parks have been called "America's best idea" -- and some of the best scientific ideas are happening right now inside these protected American spaces that welcome more than 270 million visitors each year. Meet up with scientists studying geysers, grizzlies, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies in some of America's most treasured places: our national parks.
16) Inside weather
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the causes and types of weather phenomena, including air masses, clouds, and storms, and explores the science of mapping and predicting weather.
17) Inside tornadoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on the planet-as these photographs filled with before-and-after images of storm sites reveal. What makes a tornado, where they strike, and what scientists discover as they risk their lives driving equipment as close as possible to these storms. With first-person accounts of historic storms, facts on climate change and its potential effect on tornadoes, and hands-on activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Featuring incredible photos and new information about the latest research into Mars, this updated edition of DISCOVERING MARS covers everything about the great red planet, from past to present"--Publisher.