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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It had been almost six years since anyone had heard from the famous British explorer, Dr. David Livingstone. That's when a young American newspaper reporter named Henry Morton Stanley decided to go on his own expedition to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone. Author Jim Gigliotti chronicles the lives of both of these men and details the dangerous two-year journey that would eventually bring them face-to-face"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Johnny Cash has been inducted into the Country, Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, and Gospel Halls of Fame. Who Was Johnny Cash? lets young readers learn about every step in Johnny Cash's groundbreaking musical career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who married into families across Europe. By the time...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American action film star, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and philosopher. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim. Through such films as Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon, Lee helped to change the way Asians were presented in American films and, in the process, he became an iconic figure known...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains...
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