Marissa Moss
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After successfully commanding the Discovery shuttle mission at Space Camp, Amelia returns to fifth grade where she deals with the bully who has been making her life miserable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Despite the discomforts of biting bugs, hard mattresses, and exhausting hikes, Amelia enjoys sleepaway camp with her best friend Carly until they both develop crushes on the same boy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.
10) Pharaoh's secret
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Talibah and her ten-year-old brother, Adom, visit modern-day Egypt with their historian-father, they become involved in a mystery surrounding Hatshepsut, a woman pharoah, and Senenmut, architect of her mortuary tomb, as well as their own deceased mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Amelia keeps a journal of the summer car trip she takes with her mother and sister to Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and their California home town to visit Amelia's best friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anticipating the most exciting year of her life at the start of eighth grade, Amelia is perplexed by her peers' fascination with boys, shopping, and hairstyles until she meets friendly newcomer Gerald and begins longing to go to the school dance with him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Amelia's old best friend, Nadia, from California comes for a visit, Amelia doesn't realize that Nadia and her new best friend, Carly, may not get along.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though she is excited about graduating from middle school, Amelia is sad that her best friend Carly won't be joining her in high school, so she reminisces about her earlier years and notebooks.
16) Boardwalk babies
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-- until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter. Many of those...
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of the Chinese American woman who dreamed of flying as a child and who went on to become one of only two Chinese American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to serve during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made...