Sally Wern Comport
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Candlewick Press
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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...
3) Night wings
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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After being taken captive by a band of treasure seekers, thirteen-year-old Paul and his Abenaki grandfather must face a legendary Native American monster at the top of Mount Washington.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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An ancient and terrifying Narragansett Native American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.
5) Bearwalker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Although he is the littlest student in his class, thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast when he tries to get help for his classmates, who are being terrorized during a school field trip in the Adirondacks.
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Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 2
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It's not over, that voice says. Some dreams, rabbit, are like this one I just sent you. They are messages and warnings. And even though it sends a shiver down my spine, I understand what this message, this warning, means. Skeleton Man will return. Molly thought she'd put her traumatic past behind her when she escaped from Skeleton Man last year. She rescued her parents and tried to get her life back to the way it used to be. She thought her family...