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1) Jane Goodall
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of British scientist Jane Goodall discussing her study of chimpanzees and efforts to protect them.
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Nancy Clancy finds out that both her guitar teacher, Andy, and her favorite babysitter, Annie, have broken up with the people they were dating, she decides to make them fall in love on Valentine's Day.
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Description
"When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, Eugenia wants nothing to do with it, but her plan to rid herself of the troublesome package leads to a surprising discovery"--
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Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 980L
Description
On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach of Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. If Trudy reached it successfully, she would be the first female swimmer, and only the sixth person ever, to do so.
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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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Boyds Mills Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Madeleine is fascinated by Camille Claudel one of the few female sculptors in France, and Madeleine is trying her hand at sculpting too, and despite Mademoiselle Claudel's gruffness their meeting leads to a memorable experience for them both. Inspired by an episode in the life of Camille Claudel.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Dust jacket.
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Calkins Creek
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Known as the Poppy Lady, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, successfully established the Flanders Field Memorial Poppy as a universal symbol of tribute and support for veterans and their families during World War I and II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Smith sisters were unfairly taxed on their property,they refused to pay (taxation without representation) and in response their cows were taken away - but not for long. This is a funny chapter in the history of women's suffrage.
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