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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Here are the life stories of such diverse figures as Vivaldi, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Nadia Boulanger, and Woody Guthrie. Readers will learn of both their musical natures and the personal, humorous characteristics that make their lives so fascinating. Living, breathing anecdotes--the stuff of which the best biography is made
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Most people can name some famous artists and recognize their best-known works. But what's behind all that painting, drawing, and sculpting? What was Leonardo da Vinci's snack of choice while he painted Mona Lisa's mysterious smile? Why did Georgia O'Keeffe find bones so appealing? Who called Diego Rivera "Frog-Face"? And what is it about artists that makes both their work and their lives so fascinating-to themselves, to their curious neighbors, and...
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Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Focuses on the lives of presidents as parents, husbands, pet-owners, and neighbors while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, fears, and sleep patterns.
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink, Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish typewriter. But what did such writers do when they weren't writing? What did Jane Austen eat for breakfast? What could make Mark Twain throw his shirts out the window? Why would Zora Neale Hurston punch a fellow elevator passenger? Lives of the Writers tells all that and more.
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Not all governments have been run by men. Lives of Extraordinary Women turns the spotlight on women who have wielded power, revealing their feats-and flaws-for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers, first ladies, revolutionary leaders. Some are revered. Others are notorious. What were they really like?
In this grand addition to their highly praised series, Kathleen...
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Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Profiles many of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities.
10) Pablo Picasso
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Gareth Stevens Pub./World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Retraces the life of Pablo Picasso, whose works are regarded as landmarks of modern art and artistic thought.
11) Vincent van Gogh
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Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub./World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Vincent van Gogh's artistic career only lasted from about 1880 to 1890. During that time, he produced over eight hundred paintings and a huge collection of drawings. Virtually self-taught, van Gogh developed his own individual style, which continues to inspire many today. Few artists of his time regarded him as a great painter, but during the twentieth century, decades after his death, he ranked among the most popular of artists. His works reveal...
12) Lasher
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From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers—readers by the hundreds of thousands—have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased.
Now, Anne Rice brings us again—even more magically—into the midst of the dynasty...
Now, Anne Rice brings us again—even more magically—into the midst of the dynasty...
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From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being....
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