Gerald Fitzgerald
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend."--Dust jacket, front flap. This book tells the story of Vinnie Ream, an aspiring artist living in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, who gained a reputation as a sculptor and succeeded in persuading President Abraham Lincoln to sit for her.
Author
Series
Great Brain books volume 7
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In turn-of-the-century Mormon Utah, Tom's great brain comes up with eight more schemes, most of them concerned with earning money.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees -- and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well. Kids will view their backyards and parks in a whole new light after going on an arboreal eco-tour...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
It is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - driving heavy loads, some weighing as much as twenty-two tons, over a road made of nothing but ice. Even slight miscalculations in speed can cause the frigid water to crash up through the ice with catastrophic consequences for man and machine and you'll be right beside the truckers for all of it.