Suzanne Slade
103) States of matter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Matter is all around you. It is everywhere you look. The computer on your desk, your favorite soda, the air you breaathe, and even your pets are made up of matter. Scientists use the word "matter" to mean anything that takes up space. Learn more about the states of matter.
104) The rock cycle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
105) The nitrogen cycle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Explains what g-force is and how it used by engineers, automobile manufacturers, and even professional athletes to learn more about how g-forces work so they can develop sturdier buildings, safer cars, and better sports equipment.
108) From pup to rat
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scurry across the pages of this book to learn about the life cycle of a brown rat.
112) The carbon cycle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
It happened to me volume no. 34
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Provides a resource for adopted teens who struggle with questions of identity, the search for and meeting with birth parents, and adoption by those of a different race or country, and offers advice and anecdotes from adopted teens.
114) Water on the move
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. Their curiosity led them to become inventors, but with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success. This little-known story is a fresh, kid-friendly...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
In a Guatemalan village, students squished into their tiny schoolhouse, two grades to a classroom. The villagers had tried expanding the school, but the money ran out before the project was finished. No money meant no wall materials, and that meant no more room for the students. Until one boy got a wonderful, crazy idea: Why not use soda bottles, which were scattered all around, to form the cores of the walls?