Getting to know the world's greatest inventors and scientists
Author
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the inventor and teacher of the deaf who experimented in many areas, including electricity, giant kites, and boats called hydrofoils, and became famous for creating the telephone.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In this series, about the world's greatest inventors and scientists, Mike Venezia combines humor with history to make learning fun. This book profiles Mary Leakey, who was famous for hunting for human fossils, bones, and ancient tools.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In this series, about the world's greatest inventors and scientists, Mike Venezia combines humor with history to make learning fun. This book profiles Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, who has come up with ideas that have changed our understanding of the universe.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
A biography of African American surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S. and who pioneered performing surgery on the lining around the heart.