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(0)Sandra Nickel
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English
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An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather works
When Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its wings almost touched them. And when World War II began and Joanne moved to the University of Chicago, a professor asked her to teach Air Force officers about those very clouds and the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An inspired biographical picture book about a female astronomer who makes huge discoveries about the mysteries of the night sky and changed the way we look at the universe
Vera Rubin was one of the astronomers who discovered and named dark matter, the thing that keeps the universe hanging together. Throughout her career she was never taken seriously as a scientist because she was one of the only female astronomers at that time, but she didn't let...
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Language
English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
Friendship comes in all sizes. At the carnival, Bear wants to win a teddy bear as big as she is. Instead, she gets a fish. A very little fish. Bear is so very big and Fish is so very small that Bear worries they have nothing in common. With the help of Fish, Bear learns that although she and Fish are different, they are also...
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Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--