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Bombs Over London

From the Series Mira's Diary

In the third book of this popular time-travel series, Mira navigates her way through World War I–era London, meeting famous suffragists and writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Instructed by… Read More →

  • Lexile: 770
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

A Bat Cannot Bat, a Stair Cannot Stare: More about Homonyms and Homophones

From the Series Words Are CATegorical ®

Do you think there's no more to know about homonyms and homophones? This book will prove you wrong! With dozens of laughs per second, the value of the lesson doesn't lessen the second time… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • Dewey: 428'.1
  • Copyright: 2014

A Timeline History of Early American Indian Peoples

From the Series Timeline Trackers: America's Beginnings

Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here. These many groups adapted to the varied lands and climates of what… Read More →

  • Lexile: 990
  • ATOS: 6.9
  • Dewey: 970.004'97
  • Copyright: 2015

A Timeline History of the Declaration of Independence

From the Series Timeline Trackers: America's Beginnings

By the 1760s, most American colonists had become fed up with British rule. They were tired of the unfair taxes and not being able to create their own laws, and cries for revolution were… Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • ATOS: 6.4
  • Dewey: 973.3'13
  • Copyright: 2015

A Timeline History of the Early American Republic

From the Series Timeline Trackers: America's Beginnings

In September 1783, the United States signed a peace treaty with Great Britain. This event officially ended the Revolutionary War. More importantly, it proclaimed the United States an… Read More →

  • Lexile: 780
  • ATOS: 5.8
  • Dewey: 973.2
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis

Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance."—Bustle In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1210
  • Copyright: 2014

Calling the Shots

From the Series The Gift

Cherry has everything figured out: she'll live peacefully with her grandma, hang out with her BFF Tanaya, and go to cosmetology school after she graduates. If only Tanaya and her grandma… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Certain Signals

From the Series The Gift

Rashawn is smart, owns his own car, and has some cred with the "it" crowd. But when it comes to girls, his moves and his pickup lines are a disaster. If only he knew how to read girls. When a Read More →

  • Lexile: 640
  • ATOS: 4.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone
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Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1190
  • ATOS: 8.2
  • Dewey: 590.9477'8
  • Copyright: 2015

Colin Kaepernick

From the Series Amazing Athletes

When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was in high school, his coaches thought he was too skinny to play in college. At the University of Nevada, his coaches thought he ran… Read More →

  • Lexile: 700
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: 796.332092
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
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Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole

Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. Read More →

  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: 811'.6
  • Copyright: 2014

Derrick Rose

From the Series Amazing Athletes

Chosen first overall in the 2008 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft, Derrick Rose is one of the most explosive players in basketball. He learned the game from his older brothers… Read More →

  • Lexile: 770
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: 796.323092
  • Copyright: 2015

Finding Out about Geothermal Energy

From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — What Are Energy Sources?

Did you know people can dig underground and use Earth's heat to make energy? This geothermal energy can power the computer and heat or cool your home. How exactly do we get it, though? And… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: 621.44
  • Copyright: 2015

From Leather to Basketball Shoes

From the Series Start to Finish, Second Series

How does a roll of leather become a pair of basketball shoes? Follow each step in the process—from cutting the leather to making sure the finished pair is perfect—in this fascinating book! Read More →

  • Lexile: 370
  • ATOS: 2.5
  • Dewey: 796.323
  • Copyright: 2015

Get Happy

Minerva has been raised by her single mother after her father left them. On her 17th birthday, she is shocked to discover that he has been trying to keep in touch, and that her mother has… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Ghostly Evidence: Exploring the Paranormal

It's late at night, and you're on a tour of a so-called haunted house. You see something out of the corner of your eye and quickly snap a photo. Your hands tremble as you lower the camera.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1030
  • ATOS: 6.8
  • Dewey: 133.1
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: I'm a Fire Breather!: Meet a Dragon
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I'm a Fire Breather!: Meet a Dragon

From the Series Monster Buddies

Meet Alice. She's a dragon! She breathes fire as she flies overhead. She likes her humans crispy! But don't worry. Alice isn't real. She's one of the monsters you meet in stories. She just… Read More →

  • Lexile: 530
  • ATOS: 2.8
  • Dewey: 398.24'54
  • Copyright: 2015

Malala Yousafzai: Shot by the Taliban, Still Fighting for Equal Education

From the Series Gateway Biographies

On October 9, 2012, Malala Yousafzai was on her way home from school in Swat Valley, Pakistan, when she was shot in the head by members of the Taliban. Though she was only fifteen years old,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: 371.822095491
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: New Month, New Moon
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New Month, New Moon

It’s Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar! In celebration of this monthly event, a family goes out to the Negev Desert to camp out and observe the moon. A photo… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2014

Out of the Tunnel

From the Series The Red Zone

In Troy, Ohio, there's Trojan football and then there's everything else. It's been that way as long as anyone can remember. But it's been more than a decade since Troy took home the state… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • ATOS: 4.7
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet
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Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet

Did you know that about 40 percent of the world's population lives without toilets? That's more than two billion people, most of whom live in rural areas or crowded urban slums. And according Read More →

  • Lexile: 1110
  • Dewey: 644'.6
  • Copyright: 2015

Richard Sherman

From the Series Amazing Athletes

Richard Sherman is so good at defending passing plays that quarterbacks avoid throwing the ball in his direction. His incredible ability to smother opposing wide receivers helped the Seattle… Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: 796.332092
  • Copyright: 2015

Robots at Home

From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Robots Everywhere!

Robots work in homes every day. Some vacuum floors or mow lawns. Others keep people company. And some help kids have fun! What robots might you find in someone's home? Read this book to find out! Read More →

  • Lexile: 530
  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: 629.8'92
  • Copyright: 2015

Robots in Space

From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Robots Everywhere!

Robots help us understand our universe. Some fly to distant planets. Others work alongside astronauts in space. And some drive across the surface of Mars. How do these robots work, and what… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • ATOS: 3.7
  • Dewey: 629.43
  • Copyright: 2015