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With a little luck : surprising stories of amazing discoveries
Title:
With a little luck : surprising stories of amazing discoveries
Author:
Fradin, Dennis B.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Dutton Children's Books, [2006]

©2006
Physical Description:
183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Isaac Newton: the fall of an apple -- Mary Anning: the princess of paleontology -- Charles Goodyear: the rubber man -- Anesthesia: the greatest discovery ever made -- Ignaz Semmelweis: doctors wash your hands! -- Maria Sanz de Sautuola: the bulls on the ceiling -- Alexander Fleming: discoverer of penicillin -- Clyde Tombaugh: the search for Planet X -- Lise Meitner: the discovery of nuclear fission -- Muhammad Ahmed el-Hamed: the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jocelyn Bell: the discovery of pulsars.
Reading Level:
1130 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.7 8.0 104218.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 9 11 Quiz: 39124 Guided reading level: Z.
ISBN:
9780525471967
Format :
Book