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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will learn about how rocks are formed, worn down, and then formed again to create the rock cycle. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage readers as they learn more about how rocks are continually recycled"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Rock and Gem Book is packed full of photos of natural wonders, including rocks, minerals, gems, shells and fossils. This children's encyclopedia displays more than 1,200 full-color specimens, from sapphires and rubies to silver and pearl, revealing the unique qualities of each material and how it is used in industry, architecture, art and science. Including precious metals, rare fossils, tiny gemstones and giant shells, the Rock and Gem Book gives...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In 1973, the thirty-one residents of Bitter Rock disappeared. In 2003, so did my mother. Now, I've come to Bitter Rock to find out what happened to her--and to me. Because Bitter Rock has many ghosts. And I might be one of them. Sophia's earliest memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it filled her throat, the sensation of going under. She remembers hands pulling her back to safety,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Zanes provides an honest and evocative examination of Petty's music, and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Petty was a kid without a whole lot of promise; rock and roll made it otherwise. His story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us.
9) Jellyfish
Author
Series
Publisher
Pogo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn how jellyfish live and survive in the ocean. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the invertebrate's appearance, diet, life cycle, and behaviors. Take a Look! infographics highlight and label the invertebrate's range and habitat as well as its anatomy. Sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an activity offers readers...
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
For 90 years "Poetry" has been America's most distinguished magazine of verse. This 90th anniversary anthology may be the most bountiful collection of American poems ever published. It offers a record of poetic achievement as well as some of the vagaries, fads, fashions, and failures of the last 90 years.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest and most cherished repository for the objects that define our common heritage. The author, its Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, has for decades served as a driving force in the effort of our national museums to tell America's whole story. This book is the culmination of a broad effort, led by the author and involving all the Smithsonian's national museums and more than a hundred of its...
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