Don Brown
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Machines That Think! explores machines from ancient history to today that perform a multitude of tasks, from making mind-numbing calculations to working on assembly lines to guiding spaceships to the moon. Included are fascinating looks at the world's earliest calculators, the birth of computer programming, and the arrival of smartphones. Contributors discussed include Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Ada Lovelace, and Bill Gates. From the abacus...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before 1939 survived the Second World War. Run and Hide tells the stories of these children, forced to leave their homes and families, as they escaped certain horror. Some children...
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
Author
Series
Actual times volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of a reverend figure in Celtic history who founded the famous monastery on the Scottish island of Iona and left a legacy of learning that illuminated a corner in the Dark Ages.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. The book is narrated...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A city ruined. In once quiet residential streets, two armies battle, driving people into cellars and basements with little food or water. No lights or heat. Dwindling medical supplies. Shells and bullets deliver cruel, random death to the young and old, men, women, and children. This is Mariupol, a Ukrainian city and early target of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bordering Russian-occupied territory, the coastal city seemed doomed to a defeat that...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Starting in 2011, refugees flood out of war-torn Syria in Exodus-like proportions. The surprising flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries, and chaos follows. Resentment in host nations heightens as disruption and the cost of aid grows. By 2017, many want to turn their backs on the victims. The refugees are the unwanted. Don Brown depicts moments of both heartbreaking horror and hope in the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. Shining a light on...
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn't just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.
13) Older than dirt
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Conveys the history of the Earth in humorous graphic novel format, from the big bang through continent formation, discussing how weather events and climate change continue to shape the landscape.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.