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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue's honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From his family’s beginnings in Switzerland and Germany through to his life in Peru, Indiana, Rassi has traced his family’s story. Their road to the present was filled with many challenges and successes along the way.His own life begins in the small town of Milford, Indiana, before moving on to Indiana University. There he earns his degrees in education. Rassi begins to earn his degree in life when he takes a teaching position in Peru, Indiana,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Before modern day desktops and laptops, there were human "computers" or mathematicians who handled complex calculations. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan were among the greatest computers, but their vital work at NASA has been largely left out of history. This immersive book explores the lives and accomplishments of ingenious women mathematicians and coders throughout history, such as Johnson, Jackson, and Vaughan. Mini bio and...
5) The outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever: his own. He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau, and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea. The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened...
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