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Author Krull, Kathleen.

Title Isaac Newton / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA B NEWTON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO NEWTON    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 NEW    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JB NEWTON K    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B NEWTON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Storage  J BIO NEWTON, ISAAC    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 530 NEWTON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J-B NEWTON, ISAAC    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Biography  JB NEWTON    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Children's Department  JB NEWTON    Check Shelf

Description 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Giants of science
Krull, Kathleen. Giants of science.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Audience Ages 10 up.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Contents Introduction -- ch. 1. All alone -- ch. 2. The most amazing toys -- ch. 3. Learning outside the class -- ch. 4. The apple -- ch. 5. Newton versus Hooke -- ch. 6. Math war -- ch. 7. Star war -- ch. 8. The greatest science book in the world -- ch. 9. Newton versus Newton -- ch. 10. And what about alchemy? -- ch. 11. The crimson years -- ch. 12. Impact -- Bibliography -- Index.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.3 3
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.3 3.0 104751.
Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Added Author Kulikov, Boris, 1966- illustrator.
ISBN 0670059218 hardcover $15.99
9780670059218 hardcover
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