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2020.
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"Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and many more, this book celebrates over 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields. In these profiles, young readers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to James A. Garfield including his early political career and key events from Garfield's administration including his surprise nomination, the Star Route Scandal, and his assassination by Charles Guiteau. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Franklin D. Roosevelt including his early political career and key events from Roosevelt's administration including the Great Depression, the New Deal, Pearl Harbor, and World War II. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library...
5) John Adams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to John Adams including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint...
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United States presidents) volume No. 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"This biography introduces readers Ulysses S. Grant including his military service in the Mexican and American Civil War and key events from Grant's administration including several scandals, as well as the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included." -- Publisher's website.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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The twelve scientists who are profiled here are women from all sorts of backgrounds who are currently rocking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each of them has a different story to tell about how she got to where she is today, but the one thing they have in common is that they are truly wonder women of science. Around the world there are many more women doing incredible work and breaking new ground in STEM fields--not to mention...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
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"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.--
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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"A Japanese woman is determined to uncover the identity and destiny of the owner of a suitcase sent by a Holocaust museum. Her investigation takes her around the world before she finally solves the mystery, while using the journey to teach her students about the tragedy of the Holocaust"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...
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