Lois Miner Huey
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happened to the world's biggest treasure? Early Spanish explorers heard a story about El Dorado. It was a lost city in the Americas, made of gold. The explorers believed it was real--and they believed they could find it! Soon the story became a legend, and the legend changed the world. But the city of El Dorado has not been found ... yet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Construction workers in Albany, New York, were surprised to dig up a skull―much less, one that was more than one hundred years old! Follow the archaeological excavation of a long-lost slave cemetery and discover more about these forgotten bones.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Can you imagine using a toilet to escape from a prison camp? Or how about battling snakes and bombs to help patients in the Philippines? These were everyday events for people during World War II. Experience their triumphs and defeats first-hand as you read about a captured British pilot, an American army nurse, a Japanese kamikaze pilot, and more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
March 25, 1913, began as a typical day in Dayton, Ohio. Downtown bustled with streetcars, carriages, and automobiles. By 8:10 a rush of water from the Great Miami River flooded the city. Desperate people climbed trees and telephone poles to escape the torrent. For days, people were stranded, cut off from the outside world. Experience the Great Dayton Flood through the eyes of those who lived it. Today the storm that caused the flood and devastated...