Don Brown
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"A history of vaccines [that] includes COVID-19 research." -- Adapted from cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Our popular image of Mark Twain is of a gruff, gray-haired eccentric, the outspoken literary giant who created enduring novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
But once upon a time, Mark Twain was a boy named Samuel Clemens. His birth on November 30, 1835, coincided with the appearance of Halley’s comet, streaking across the sky. A dreamer, a prankster, a lover of great tales, Sam Clemens spent his boyhood...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The most famous duel in American history dramatized by leading nonfiction picture book illustrator, Don Brown.
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were both fierce patriots during the Revolutionary War, but the politics of the young United States of America put them in constant conflict. Their extraordinary story of bitter fighting and resentment culminates in their famous duel. For young patriots who may not yet know the shocking and tragic story,...
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"Brown ... sits down with [Jerry] Yellin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the ... story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over--but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. [This book] is a ... first-person...
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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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 wasnt 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
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Award-winning author Don Brown explores a very timely subject: the history of vaccines 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...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D. C. and the hi-jacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania,
11) Treason
Author
Series
Navy justice series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Lieutenant Zack Brewer finds his skills and Christian beliefs challenged when he is chosen to prosecute a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps.
12) Hostage
Author
Series
Navy justice series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
When terrorists attack, JAG officer Zack Brewer faces a deadly choice: save the woman he loves--or the lives of millions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The basis of the provocative hit military documentary Fallen Angel Call Sign: Extortion 17.
A Black Hawk Down of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflict-and a military investigation that covered up evidence of an inside job by the Taliban. Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney, has in his possession one of four copies of...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides the captivating story of this amazing vessel, the people who built it, and its tragic demise during its maiden voyage across the Atlantic as told through first-hand accounts and detailed illustrations of the events as they happened.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Teedie was not exactly the stuff of greatness: he was small for his size. Delicate. Nervous. Timid. By the time he was ten years old, he had a frail body and weak eyes. He was deviled by asthma, tormented by bullies. His favorite place to be was at home. Some might think that because of these things, Teedie was destined for a ho-hum life. But they would be wrong. For teeedie had a strong mind, as well as endless curiosity and determination. Is that...
18) Older than dirt
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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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
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dolley was a farm girl who became a fine first lady when she married James Madison. She wore beautiful dresses, decorated her home, and threw lavish parties. Everyone talked about Dolley, and everyone loved her, too. Then war arrived at her doorstep, and Dolley had to meet challenges greater than she'd ever known. So Dolley did one thing she thought might make a difference: she saved George Washington. Not the man himself, but a portrait of him, which...