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Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, among them Marie Curie, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Donna Strickland. A glimpse into the often surprising lives and sometimes accidental discoveries of a group of extraordinary scientists, this fascinating collection shows that the science you learn at school really can change the world." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of inspirational ideas about peace based on the lives of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes: Jean Henry Dunant, Fridtjof Nansen, Jane Addams, John Boyd Orr of Brechin, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Malala Yousafzai.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What if superheroes didn't have supernatural powers, but were humans with incredible drive, who worked really hard to expand their knowledge? What if our superheroes were scientists? This first book in the My Super Science Heroes series is about Marie Curie and her many glowing achievements. Using a fictionalized storytelling approach, readers will learn about Marie Curie's many accomplishments, the power of persistence, and will feel empowered to...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of how Mexican-American scientist Mario Molina helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s and went on to become a Nobel laureate and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His inspiring story gives hope in the fight against global warming. Full color.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan, her father was determined she would have every opportunity that a boy would have. She loved getting an education, but when a hateful regime came to power, girls were no longer allowed to go to school. Malala spoke out in public about this, which made her a target for violence. She was shot in the left side of her head and woke up in hospital in England. Finally after long months and many surgeries, Malala...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un microscopio. De joven, ya viviendo en California,...
11) The last trial
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of seventeen for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked by a powerful group in Pakistan who wanted women to remain in the shadows. She continues to fight for women's rights and free education for children all over the world"--
16) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank...
18) Feynman
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Richard Feynman: physicist ... Nobel winner ... bestselling author ... safe-cracker. In this graphic novel biography, First Second presents the exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry:...
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