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Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, award-winning biographer Janet Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.
15) The Danger Box
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
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