Candace Fleming
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
With numerous starred reviews and accolades, from award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave and dedicated young women who helped turn the tides of World War II for the Allies, with their hard work and determination at Bletchley Park.
"Events are brought to dramatic life through a treasure trove of photographs—which show the goings-on at Bletchley and the sobering progress
...Author
Series
Bulldozer books (Candace Fleming) volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bulldozer wants to invite all of his co-workers to a party to celebrate his special day, but to them it is just another day for scooping, sifting, stirring, and more.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pig plops into his sty at bedtime, he finds Cow sleeping there and must send her off to her stall, setting off a chain reaction of animals being awakened to move to their own beds.
Author
Series
Bulldozer books (Candace Fleming) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Bulldozer proves that he can help on the construction site"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself -- and she wouldn't have had it any other way.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants...
11) Giant squid
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction picture book exploring the mysterious life of the elusive giant squid"--
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations, Presenting Buffalo Bill makes the great showman...
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A German shepherd is transformed from Etzel, a police dog in Berlin, to Strongheart, a silent movie star that will need his best acting skills to prove himself innocent of attacking a girl.--Provided by Publisher.
18) Penny & Pip
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Penny goes on a class field trip to the museum and befriends a baby dinosaur.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her.