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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Stephen Hawking in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a table of contents, author biography, timeline, glossary, index, and other informative backmatter.
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Series
Language
English
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Featuring 21 hands-on projects that explore the scientific concepts Isaac Newton developed; this illuminating guide paints a rich portrait of the brilliant and complex man and provides young readers with a hands-on understanding of astronomy, physics, and mathematics. The activity-packed resource allows children to experiment with swinging pendulums, build a simple waterwheel, create a 17th-century plague mask, track the phases of the moon, bake an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It also led him to make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century: Hawking radiation. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy--a process...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Day 1642, a farmer's wife gave birth to a baby boy in Lincolnshire, England. Isaac Newton was a sickly child who found it difficult to make friends. When it came to farming, he got into trouble for letting the pigs go astray and the fences fall down. But he was fascinated by inventions, spending his time carving sundials and making kites. No one would have guessed that, when Newton grew up, he would be one the the greatest scientists...
10) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the English physicist, who rose from a boyhood in the slums of London to make significant discoveries in the study of electricity, magnetism, and light.
12) Isaac Newton
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the well-known English mathematitian and scientific thinker who helped to change our thinking about the universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the English physicist whose work on the laws of motion and gravity and invention of calculus had great influence on the understanding of the physical nature of the universe.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and times of the seventeenth-century English scientist who formulated the theory of gravity.
20) Stephen Hawking
Series
Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. Using bright infographics, this book presents over 250 facts about Stephen Hawking, the world-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist and author of bestselling books on science. This graphic retelling of his story gives children a colorful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while...
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