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1) Cat's cradle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us,...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. The illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of it legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy-the Catholic Church.
World renowned harvard symbologist Robert Langdon must uncover...
3) Feynman
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 620L
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel biography about the life of Nobel Prize winner and physicist Richard Feynman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and...
5) Hawking
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. A lively and popular young man, it's no surprise that he would later rise to celebrity status.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the renowned theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology further than most in his field, despite his need for wheelchair and computer to travel and communicate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses various beliefs about the origin and nature of the universe and the studies of such scientists as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein, who have advanced our understanding of the universe.
10) Albert Einstein
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the scientist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the American physicist, discussing his early accomplishments in physics, his receipt of the Noble Prize in 1965, and his work in solving the cause of 1986 crash of the space shuttle Challenger.
12) Genius
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Facing unemployment if he cannot present new research to the scientific community, quantum physicist Ted Marx tries to coerce his father-in-law into revealing a profound and devastating secret that Einstein entrusted to him.
"Ted Marx works hard at his career as a quantum physicist. But lately the demands of his job have begun to overwhelm him. Then Ted makes a startling discovery: his wife's father once knew Einstein and claims that Einstein entrusted...
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