Steve Sheinkin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Newbery Honor Book Bomb comes a tense, narrative nonfiction account of what the Times deemed "the greatest story of the century": how whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into "the most dangerous man in America," and risked everything to expose years of government lies during the Nixon / Cold War era. On June 13, 1971, the front page of the...
Author
Publisher
Flash Point
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of our nation, complete with soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real facts, is presented in a narrative tale filled with little-known details and anecdotes.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
Author
Publisher
Flash Point
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Presents the greatest adventures of America's Westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and the gold rush to the Indian wars and life of the cowboy, as well as the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 640L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
When Amelia Earhart accidentally time travels back to ancient Greece, Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade her to return to her own time and finish her solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong accidentally time travels to 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the Moon, and stepsiblings Abby and Doc must untwist history and get everyone back to their own time.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin tells the story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S." --
Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A narrative history of the United States provides the funny, fascinating, and thoroughly compelling bits that played a part in the start of the Civil War, from the Congressional confrontations to the personal issues that threatened America's very existence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
When Abraham Lincoln overhears a classroom of kids say "history is boring," he decides to teach them a lesson. Lincoln escapes from 1860--to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler! Now siblings Doc and Abby have to convince Lincoln to go back to Springfield, Illinois, and accept the presidency ... before everything spins out of control!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
"When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend, bombs are dropped. The war ends soon after, but not for...
Author
Series
Guys read library of great reading volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You asked for it, you got it! 'Guys Read', the hottest anthology series for tween boys, continues with ten new nonfiction stories. This fifth installment in the 'Guys Read Library of Great Reading' features ten stories that are 100 percent amazing, 100 percent adventurous, 100 percent unbelievable - and 100 percent true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the...