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(0)Cecelia Riddett
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.
