Diane Stanley
5) Cleopatra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Cleopatra's rule in Egypt, and tells how she persuaded Romans Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to help her try to make Egypt powerful.
7) Joan of Arc
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor includes notebook sketches that reveal his observations of anatomy and science, his ideas for a flying machine, and such paintings as the Mona Lisa and Last Supper.
10) Michelangelo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
15) Peter the Great
Author
Language
English
Description
A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.