Laura L Sullivan
1) Pocahontas
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The daughter of a Native American chief, Pocahontas grew up during a time of incredible change in North America. This is her story, from her birth to her encounters with colonists, and finally her untimely death at the age of twenty-one. It captures her greatest achievements, as well as her role in the Powhatan tribe and later as a visitor in England. Told in simple, engaging words and accompanied by vibrant pictures, this is a story readers are...
2) Geronimo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Geronimo was a great leader and a wise man. In this book, readers will uncover his life story-from his struggles with the US government and settlers in Arizona to the eventual surrender that made him a prisoner of war for the rest of his life-and understand his profound effect on the Apache tribe. Though he later became famous and traveled the country, he was never allowed to return to his birthplace. Through easy-to-read text and fascinating pictures,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Present-day America owes its diversity to the men, women, and children who endured hardships to make America what it is today. Among these were the first immigrants. Many people traveled by boat, and perhaps the most famous immigrant-carrying boat was the Mayflower. This is the story of the Mayflower and what the voyage was like for the men, women, and children who traveled on it.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Australian box jellyfish is the most venomous animal in the oceans, with the capability to kill a human in minutes. There are about fifty species of box jellyfish. Learn where they live, how they eat, how they strike, what happens to you when one stings you, and what creature is immune to its powerful poison.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
World War II was a difficult, frightening time for many people around the globe. In the United States, difficulties arose after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. People became suspicious of Japanese Americans living in the United States. As a result, many Japanese Americans were put into internment camps.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Charles Darwin. Readers will learn about Darwin's early life, personal life, and all about his contributions to science, natural selection, evolution, and common descent. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The sense of taste helps animals determine what is delicious, and what is deadly. Animals have evolved a wide variety of taste preferences and abilities. For instance, an octopus has ten thousand taste buds on each one of its arms' suckers; a bison has a great knack for using taste to avoid toxic plants while grazing, and gorillas and chimps like sweet-tasting food. With interesting, easy-to-understand text and vivid pictures, this book explores the...
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reason: Amra was Muslim. It was the first sign her world was changing. Then Muslim refugees from other Bosnian cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When the tanks rolled into Bihac, bringing her own city under seige, Amra's happy life in her peaceful city vanished. But there is light even...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Without the American Revolution, the United States would not be what it is today, and without the help of important men and women, the United States may not have won its independence. One of the most important roles a person could play was that of a spy. Spies were important to both sides of the war. Read all about the men and women who helped the United States win the war of independence through secrets, disguises, and dangerous missions. This book...