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(0)Kathryn Lasky
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of John Muir, naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, whose travels, speeches and writings led directly to the creation of the Yosemite National Park in 1890 and other national parks that followed.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39p colored photographs
Language
English
Description
Describes efforts to protect sea turtles, particularly Kemp's ridley turtles, and help them reproduce and replenish their once-dwindling numbers.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[42] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
