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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Researching and writing can be fun. But how do you know you're quoting and summarizing properly in your written work? Discover how to understand public domain, how to cite a source, and how to use someone else's words appropriately in your papers and projects.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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It's late at night, and you're on a tour of a so-called haunted house. You see something out of the corner of your eye and quickly snap a photo. Your hands tremble as you lower the camera. Your eyes widen as you stare at the image you've just captured. A face seems to be lurking in the background. But when you look up, there's no one standing there! Was it a ghost? Ghost sightings are reported all the time. Many are easily explained. Others are harder...
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Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It is often difficult to observe the behavior of wild animals. They may only be active at night, or they may live in the tops of trees. This book shows how new technologies make it easier for scientists to study animal behaviors." --Page [4] of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers!
Little brown bats do us a big favor. They eat huge numbers of insects! That helps limit the spread of diseases and the damage that insects do to farm crops. But in recent years, large populations of little brown bats have been dying off each winter. Is a virus killing them? Could climate change or pesticides be the cause? Or is it something...
12) Science dogs
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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After injuring his spinal cord in an accident, Jasper the dachshund was unable to move his back legs. In 2012, scientists at Cambridge University tried an unusual experiment to help Jasper walk again. They took special cells from inside Jasper's nose and transplanted them into his spine. Why? Scientists knew that these cells constantly regrow to keep the nose working. Could these same cells somehow repair Jasper's damaged spinal cord? This is just...
13) Area 51
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Engaging images accompany information about Area 51. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Travel to the African bush with Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this myth-busting new addition to the Scientists in the Field series as they join the internationally acclaimed woman researcher conducting one of the longest and most important studies of African mammals in the history of science."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Explores the International Space Station (ISS), including its construction and the missions required to build it, living and working aboard the ISS, and its importance as the future of the space program"--
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the isolated Nevada air base known as Area 51, covering its use for testing top-secret aircraft, and discusses speculation about a connection to unidentified flying objects.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The information you find online can sometimes feel overwhelming. Which online sources can you trust? How do you know which sites include the facts you're looking for? Learn the basics of how to do an effective online search, what to do if you have trouble finding information, and how to tell whether a source is reliable.