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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sky gazers experience a total solar eclipse in this descriptive picture book about the wonders of this phenomenon.
What happens during a solar eclipse?
The sun vanishes. Light becomes dark. Day animals sleep and night animals wake. The moon takes over the sky. People stop what they're doing and together, they look up.
The whole world changes for a few beautiful minutes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ancient Night is a twist on two Nahua traditions: the rabbit which the Feathered Serpent placed on the moon, and Yaushu, the Lord Opossum who ruled the earth before humans came, and who stole fire from the gods to create the sun"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Harriet Tubman's daring escape from slavery and her heroic efforts that brought three hundred African Americans to freedom through the Underground Railroad.