Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
Lonnie Johnson once took an aptitude test that indicated he wouldn’t make a... read more
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- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2016
Word Count 1,227
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 820L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 181421
- Curricular Area
- History
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Inventors
- Alabama
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Experiments & Projects
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
- African American inventors--Alabama--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Lonnie
- African Americans
- Biographies
- United States
- African American inventors
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Johnson, Lonnie, 1949---Juvenile literature
- Inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African Americans--Alabama--Biography--Juvenile literature
Our Original Resources 6
Meet-the-Author Recording with Chris Barton about Whoosh!
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Don Tate
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Chris Barton
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
Created by TeachingBooks
Cultural Representation Reflection
Created by TeachingBooks

Extension Activities from Knowledge Quest (AASL)
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Reader's Theater Script from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2018
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award 2018

Teaching Ideas from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2018
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by J.D. Jackson
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Book Trailers 1

Video Book Trailer from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2018
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award 2018
Awards & Distinctions 8

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2021
Commended, 2017

Cook Prize, 2012-2020
Honor, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2020
Biography Selection, 2017

Best STEM Books, 2017-2021
Selection, 2017

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

ILA Children’s Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Selection, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Biography Selection, 2016
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