William Pene Du Bois
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Relates the adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, a disillusioned schoolteacher, who in 1883 sets off in a giant balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
Author
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
[This book] describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted. The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans. He uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen...
9) The sick day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Share the comforting rituals, tender care, and unexpected laughter that fill a child's sick days.
10) The mousewife
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A house mouse who thinks there must be more to life than looking for food and caring for her family befriends a lonely, caged dove.