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Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the king of Macedonia, discussing his childhood, his education under Aristotle, his military conquests and rule over the largest empire of the known world, and his untimely death at the age of thrity-three.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, her imprisonment by her half-sister, through her reign as one of England's more respected monarchs, to her death in 1603.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian political and spiritual leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the South African leader, who spent years as a political activist and prisoner trying to overturn apartheid and who went on to become the country's first African president.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the twelfth-century ruler, who became the queen of France and then England, who was an active participant in many of the rivalries between the royal houses of the period, and was the mother of ten children, including Richard the Lionhearted.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the first woman to study physics at the University College of Paris, who went on to receive two Nobel Prizes for her work in radioactivity.