Stuart A Kallen
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In the early 1980s, doctors sounded the alarm. A mysterious new disease-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS-was spreading around the world. While many of the first AIDS patients were gay men, no one seemed to be immune from the deadly blood-borne disease. Researchers set to work to discover what was causing AIDS. They suspected a virus. Two teams of scientists-one in the United States and one in France-worked tirelessly to identify the virus...
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On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmlesslandfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth? Reducing, reusing, recycling, and upcycling are some of the answers. Learn more about the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean...
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As the planet's human population explodes, so does the demand for water. About one out of every nine people in the world does not have access to safe drinking water, while one out of every five-almost 1.5 billion humans-lives in a region where water demand is outstripping supply. But as demand grows, supplies do not. Climate change has led to severe drought, flooding, and massive storms in key agricultural areas of the world. Industrial and agricultural...
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"The only way we could win was to keep fighting for a long time...the only way we could win was by staying with it."-Cesar Chavez As the sun rose on September 8, 1965, in Delano, California, thousands of acres of ripe grapes hung heavy on the vine. But instead of harvesting the crop, Filipino farmworkers on nine large ranches laid down their tools and walked out of the vineyards in protest of their low wages and dangerous working conditions. The strike...
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Featuring quirky horse-riding dance moves and an infectious electronic beat, an unlikely music video and its leading man made history in 2012. In December of that year, "Gangnam Style" reached one billion hits on YouTube-the most views ever. Seemingly overnight, the South Korean pop star behind the hit-Psy (Park Jae-sang)-became a household name. But Psy is just part of the story. Other South Korean pop sensations such as Girls' Generation, 2NE1,...
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Español
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En el Pacífico Sur, en 1944 y 1945, se libraron batallas militares entre Estados Unidos y Japón. Rodeados del traqueteo de las balas y las explosiones de las bombas, un grupo de marines navajos enviaba mensajes secretos de un lado a otro. Usaron un código que crearon a partir del idioma navajo, y que el enemigo nunca pudo descifrar.
Estos jóvenes fueron reclutados de sus hogares en el suroeste de Estados Unidos. Trajeron consigo una resistencia...
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October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He carried out the bloody assignment with nine point-blank shots to Guevara's body. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination...
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1952 On June 26, 1952, twenty-five men and five women entered the waiting room of a railway station in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. If they had been white people of European descent, they would have gone unnoticed. But they were black South Africans who were violating the waiting room's "Europeans Only" sign as part of the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws. Instituted by the African National Congress (ANC), the campaign aimed to peacefully...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the South Pacific during World War II, a group of Navajo Marines sent secret messages for the Allies using a code based on the Navajo language. Learn more about these heroes, whose unbreakable code helped win the war.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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During World War II, Allied spies and secret agents worked behind the scenes to send messages and discover the enemy's plans. Learn more about these hidden heroes: a famous singer, a baseball player, a writer, and many others.
13) Icebergs
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Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
16) Persian cats
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
17) Maine coon cats
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents information about the oldest and largest American breed of cat including physical characteristics, care and feeding, and what to look for when buying a kitten.
18) Polar bears
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Briefly describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of polar bears.
19) Black bears
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
1996
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Briefly describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of black bears.