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1) World War I
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 1090L
Language
English
Description
Provides an eyewitness account of the war that devastated Europe, from the assassination of an archduke to the killing fields of France. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon...
2) Soccer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 1130L
Language
English
Description
Examines all aspects of the game of soccer, including its history, rules, soccer skills, tactics, equipment, famous players, and playing fields.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a parent you strive to model kindness, compassion, and patience when interacting with your children. But no parent is perfect, and in difficult or stressful moments, you may react to your kids in ways that don't exactly fit your ideal model of parenting -- for example, yelling. You aren't alone. Parental reactions are often deeply ingrained, and you likely learned them from your parents. So how can you break this cycle and be the kind of parent...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"Hunting, hiding, changing, and stinking bugs are all here! Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different bugs and how they survive - how they hunt, eat, hide, and protect themselves or even completely transform!"
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone--Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
6) Insect
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 1110L
Language
English
Description
Discover the busy and intriguing world of insects - their structure, life history, and fascinating variety.
7) Train
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"'Magical thinking' can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency...
Author
Series
I survived true stories volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
". . . tells the true stories of several animals who face challenges of their own and the humans who help them survive"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind. Psych is an expert and passionate guide to the most intimate aspects of our...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This book will examine paradoxes in diverse areas of thought: philosophy, mathematics, physics, economics, political science, psychology, computer science, logic, statistics, linguistics, law, etc. Though the treatment of each paradox is rigorous, the book will be written accessibly with a lighthearted and humorous tone so as to keep the reader engaged. Each chapter will focus on a single paradox, structured roughly like so: 1. A question is asked...
13) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Why would someone wake up and claim they're Napoleon? Or believe they have been turned into a wolf and demand to be fed raw meat? For centuries, we've dismissed delusions as a problem for the shrinks to sort out in distant asylums. But delusions are more than just bizarre case studies - they tell stories of collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd explores delusions from ancient times to present and implores...
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Life is much too precious to postpone. It's time to put yourself in your own story. The good news is, there are "hacks" you can do right now to make your life more of what you want it to be. And you don't have to be selfish, quit your job, or win the lottery to do them. Sam Horn offers actionable, practical advice in short, snappy chapters to show you how to get started on your best life -- now."--Amazon.com.
18) Ocean
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 1100L
Language
English
Description
Explores the endless diversity of life in the sea, from the humpback whale and its hour-long songs to the coral colonies that spawn all their young in a single night.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin, including: Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father's brow (giving Zeus a killer headache in the process), the goddess of war and provider of wise counsel;...
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