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23) John F. Kennedy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This biography introduces readers to John F. Kennedy including his military service, early political career, and key events from Kennedy's administration including the Cold War, space race, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban missile crisis, and his assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included." -- Publisher's website.
27) The asteroids
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces the bodies in space also known as planetoids, minor planets, or when they stray from their paths, meteoroids.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Author Jeff Passan examines the franchise lifeblood role of pitchers in Major League Baseball and the considerable vulnerability of pitching arms. Drawing on rare interviews with Daniel Hudson, Todd Coffey and Sandy Koufax this book provides insights into the impact of injuries on careers and teams.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Why do people have certain traits and talents? We are all who we are because cells in our bodies grow and respond according to instructions from DNA molecules. RNA carries the DNA details from the cell nucleus to other parts of the cell. Engaging language and detailed, colorful images and diagrams simplify complicated scientific principles into pieces of information students can comprehend more easily. They will gain a deeper understanding of how...
32) Colorado
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports and arts, and people of the state of Colorado.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically...
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Pub. Date
1992.
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In sweep, color, and grandeur, the conquest and settlement of Siberia compares with the winning of the American West. It is the greatest pioneering story in human history, uniquely combining the heroic colonization of an intractable virgin land, the ghastly dangers and high adventure of Arctic exploration, and the grimmest saga of penal servitude in the chronicles of man. Four hundred years of continual human striving chart its course, a drama of...
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"A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind. Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today, however, the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery...