Marc Aronson
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century unmasks the man behind the FBI, his family history, and relationships, and explores his own need for secrecy, deceit, and control, and the broad trends in society that shaped his world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On June 23, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster struck. A rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them as they took shelter on a shelf of the dark cave. Eight days of searching yielded no signs of life, but on July 2 they were discovered by two British divers. The boys and their coach were eventually rescued in an international...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning author and School Library Journal blogger Marc Aronson joins National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor on a fascinating quest to connect the ancient Greek's mythological griffin-part lion, part eagle-with their discovery of dinosaur bones.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
ix, 166 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the island's unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending"--Amazon.
6) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...