Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Shares the inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, whose incredible safety hood became a forerunner to the gas masks that saved thousands of soldiers during World War I.
In 1911, 146 workers died in the shocking Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Morgan decided to invent a safety hood for firefighters-- but people weren't interested in buying his safety hood when they discovered its inventor was black. When...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In an attempt to revive his dearly departed friend, young medical student John Watson becomes obsessed with replicating the work of Dr. Victor Frankenstein; the legendary corpse engineer whose research produced the only re-animated corpse to possess a soul. But when his illegal experiments put him at odds with the British government, Watson is drafted into a worldwide race to find the lost research notes of Victor Frankenstein before the secrets of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include artist Aaron Douglas, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, musician Prince, photographer Gordon Parks, tennis champion Arthur Ashe, and writer James Baldwin. The legends in this book span centuries and continents, but what they have in common is that each one...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Photographs, graphics, and text bring to life the contributions, inventions, wisdom, savvy, and courage of 109 American originals, including Frank Epperson, the inventor of the popsicle, cereal creator John Harvey Kellogg, and Shamu, the killer whale who began her stay at the San Diego Sea World in 1965.
.png)