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Candice Ransom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Water is essential to life on our planet. Water is constantly moving between Earth's surface, the air, and the ground. But did you know that water cannot be created or destroyed? Or that water is not only a liquid but also a solid and a gas? See the water cycle in action in this fascinating book.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In December 1606, three ships carrying 105 men and boys set sail from Dover, England. The ships headed for the eastern shores of North America. There the men planned to establish a new colony known as Virginia. Sailing into the Chesapeake Bay, the settlers excitedly observed a vast wilderness of thick grasses, green forests, and wide rivers. But as the newcomers built their settlement, they struggled with disagreements, hard labor, food shortages,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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In September 1774, American colonial leaders gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From New Hampshire to Georgia, colonists were angry about the taxes they were forced to pay to Great Britain. But Britain's King George III and the British government refused to listen to the colonists. Decisionmakers from each American colony held a congress-a formal meeting-to discuss what the colonies should do. Some leaders wanted to make peace with Britain. Others...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Late in the spring of 1787, fifty-five men gathered at the Pennsylvania State House. They came to write a new constitution for the United States. The leader of this Constitutional Convention was George Washington. The other men were delegates. The men knew it would be hard for them all to agree on what the constitution should say. But they also knew that a new constitution was important. The young country was in trouble. It had no main leader. Instead,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Have you ever worn silk? Eaten Rice? Used a calendar? All these things came from ancient China. More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese invented tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Chinese lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them. Discover how they changed the world!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent hours exploring meadows and woods, dreaming of seeing the ocean. As Rachel grew older, she combined her gift for writing with her love of nature, producing award-winning books about the sea. But her best-known achievement was the publication of Silent Spring, an account of the dangerous effects of pesticides on plants and animals....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Have you ever worn silk? Eaten Rice? Used a calendar? All these things came from ancient China. More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese invented tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Chinese lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them. Discover how they changed the world!
9) Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution?: And Other Questions about the Constitutional Convention of 1787
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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In May 1787, men from all over the United States arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on serious business. Just eleven years earlier, colonial leaders had met in Philadelphia to declare their independence from Great Britain. But now the young country was in trouble. The U.S. government was weak, and its guiding document-the Articles of Confederation-was failing. Throughout the summer of 1787, state representatives and leaders argued, shouted, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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On an airfield in New Jersey . . . a boy witnesses disaster. Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937. Stenny Green loves to build model airships. He's excited to learn the Hindenburg will land in his town. He sneaks off to the airfield to catch a glimpse of it. The night turns to tragedy when the Hindenburg explodes in the sky. Can Stenny help the wreck's survivors?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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After eleven-year-old Jane-Ery loses her father in a sawmill accident, Grandpap comes down from Salter's Mountain to live with her and her mother. To Jane-Ery's surprise, Grandpap's funny ways and strange stories bring her a comfort she never expected. He tells her about Day's Bottom, a place of light and wonderment" that has anything a body could ever want." Jane-Ery wonders: Could she find Daddy there? So begins her search for a new kind of understanding...
