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970L
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English
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Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the perspective of three to four major works of art that not only...
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English
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"Our world is changing, and so are the skills and technologies needed to keep it running. Drawing on cutting-edge science, this book imagines professions that may one day be essential to preserving and improving life on Earth! Become a 'plant whisperer' and learn how to communicate with trees! Or be a 'cloud hunter' and help slow global warming! Whatever your passion, you'll discover a world of possibility in this fun and inspiring guide to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Everything is made from something, but what makes different materials light, strong, heavy, or flexible? Acclaimed physicist Dr. Jess Wade offers an elegant, friendly introduction to atoms, the elements, and other essential science concepts, and then reveals how very (very) small materials are being manipulated in cutting-edge field of nanotechnology" --
6) Glasses
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction 'biography' of glasses, an everyday object that has become ubiquitous, starting with the discovery of the magnifying properties of glass through the development of the eye chart, plastic lenses, and contact lenses"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 870L
Language
English
Description
"Meghan McCarthy tells the story of the history of movies and the creators who made them. In fascinating detail, she shows how early photography capturing motion became silent films, which led to the first color films"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Here is the little-known history of Otto Lilienthal, a daring man whose more than 2,000 successful flights inspired the Wright Brothers and other aviation pioneers. In 1862, balloons were the only way to reach the sky. But 14-year-old Otto Lilienthal didn't want to fly in balloons. He wanted to soar like a bird. Scientists, teachers, and news reporters everywhere said flying was impossible. Otto and his brother Gustav desperately wanted to prove...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! The life and accomplishments...
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2012
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English
Description
We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and ideas. Inventors created marvels like the elephant water...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 790L
Language
English
Description
"The world's greatest scientists gather in a secret town in the desert to develop the atomic bomb."--
"In the middle of the desert in New Mexico, in a town that doesn't even have a name, the scientists arrive. They have been hired by the government for a secret project, a project so secret, they cannot tell a soul. They must build something unthinkable. They must complete it soon. The clock is ticking..."--
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries while focusing on the biographies of five inventors from that time and the creations they brought to the world. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator are brought to life as kids discover the challenges these...
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