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Series
Publisher
World Book, a Soctt Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An exploration of the questions and mysteries that have puzzled scholars and experts about the remote location of Easter Island, including its culture, giant statues, and writing. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on Easter Island, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions and mysteries surrounding the pharaohs of Egypt. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on ancient Egypt, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of why the Bermuda Triangle is considered to be a danger to ships and planes, and the reality about its dangers; also discusses places of actual danger in the oceans. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous writers on the Bermuda Triangle, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions and mysteries that have puzzled scholars and experts about the Trojan War. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on the archaeology of the area in which the war is thought to have taken place, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack where he works on writing stories to enter in regional contests across Spain, and foisting his judgments about literature on anyone who will listen as one of the last remaining members of the "negacionismo" poetry movement....
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole ... a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of La Malinche, a young Nahuatl woman who helped Cortés defeat the Aztec Empire by acting as interpreter and advisor to the conquistador, and who wound up representing the new Mexican identity of mixed Spanish and Aztec cultures.
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of mysteries concerning the Amazon rain forest that have puzzled scholars, explorers, and experts. Discusses evidence for large, pre-Columbian urban areas in the Amazon and why such urban centers went undiscovered for so long. Features include maps, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on Amazonian culture, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions scholars have concerning Machu Picchu, an Inca archaeological site in Peru. Features include, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on the Inca and Machu Picchu, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
13) Weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Describes the natural forces and interactions and dynamics that cause changes in the weather.
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions and mysteries that have puzzled scholars and experts about the Neolithic site of Stonehenge. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on Stonehenge, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. Author María García Esperón, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator...
18) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia. From an early age, she knew she wanted to dedicate herself to religion. She was fascinated by stories of missionaries helping people and wanted to do the same. She spent the rest of her life caring for the sick and poor around the world and is now remembered as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The incredible story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back"--Back cover.
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions and mysteries surrounding the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Features include, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on ancient Egypt, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of questions surrounding the geoglyphs (symbols marked in the earth) in the Peruvian desert, known as the Nazca Lines. Features include fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on the Nazca Lines and the Nazca culture, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
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