Here's our GoodBooksforKids list of books about Albert Einstein. We've listed all the books we could find from AR 2.3 to AR 5.0. (The exception being that we included the English version of "Who Was Albert Einstein?" that is at 5.8)
Albert Einsteinby Lola M. Schaefer
Description: Biography of Albert Einstein, a German-born scientist, who made significant discoveries in the field of physics.
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 189
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading Level: 2.3 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 70355
- Publisher: Capstone Press
- ISBN-10: 073683382X
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Albert Einsteinby Rebecca Gómez
Description: An introduction to the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 722
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading Level: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 65563
- Publisher: Buddy Books (2003)
- ISBN-10: 1577659465
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Albert Einstein: Young Thinkerby Marie Hammontree
GoodReads ave rating - 3.75 - 65 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: All children know who Albert Einstein grew up to be--but what was he like as a child? The clear text in this book is enhanced by illustrations and paintings, documents and photographs from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 23,190
Page Count: 192
Accelerated Reading Level: 3.9 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 807
Lexile: 540L
- Publisher: Aladdin
- ISBN-10: 0020418604
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Albert Einstein(Compass Point Early Biographies series)
by Dana Meachen Rau
Description: A biography of Albert Einstein, a scientist and physicist who had many new ideas or theories about the way the world works.
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 977
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 67775
- Publisher: Compass Point Books ( 2003)
- ISBN-10: 0756510503
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Albert Einstein: Scientist and Geniusby Suzanne Slade
Description: Albert Einstein was one of the world's greatest scientific thinkers. Find out how the once shy, awkward boy from Germany grew up to make groundbreaking discoveries about space, time, and energy.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 780
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 115657
Lexile: 740L
- Publisher: Picture Window Books (2007)
- ISBN-10: 1404837302
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What's the Matter with Albert? A Story of Albert Einsteinby Frieda Wishinsky
GoodReads ave rating - 3.64 - 36 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: Billy Whitestone gets the assignment of a lifetime when his school paper sends him to interview Albert Einstein. But though the world-famous physicist loves children, he is also somewhat reluctant to be interviewed. How will Billy win him over?
Using child-friendly language and stunning oil paintings to engage young readers, this fictionalized biography offers a vivid account of the life and times, struggles and accomplishments of Albert Einstein — who is revealed as a mischievous and sometimes temperamental student in his own right. Based on archival photographs, Jacques Lamontagne's artwork draws readers into Einstein's world, while a handy historical timeline accompanies the story.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 3537
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.3 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 60553
- Publisher: Maple Tree Press (2004)
- ISBN-10: 1897066155
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Albert Einsteinby Don McLeese
Description: This book provides biographical and science-related information, examining the life of Albert Einstein and his contribution to history.
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 504
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 89760
- Publisher: Rourke Pub Group (2005)
- ISBN-10: 160472997X
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Albert Einstein: Genius of the Twentieth Centuryby Patricia Lakin
Description: From a young age Albert Einstein was curious and very smart. But that didn't mean life was easy for him. In fact, being so smart sometimes made things harder for him! Read all about his life, and find out why Albert Einstein is known as the genius of the twentieth century.
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 2,239
Page Count: 48
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 100781
- Publisher: Aladdin (2005)
- ISBN-10: 0689870345
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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einsteinby Don Brown
GoodReads ave rating - 3.80 - 83 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn’t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving puzzles and fixing scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein came up with during his childhood as an odd boy out were destined to change the way we know and understand the world around us .
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 1,178
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.6 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 83512
- Publisher: Sandpiper (2008)
- ISBN-10: 9780547014357
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Albert Einstein (Inventores Famosos/Discover the Life of An Inventorby Don McLeese
Reading Information:
Word Count: 504
Page Count: 24
Interest Level: elementary
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.4/ points: 0.5
AR quiz: 8976
- Publisher: Rouke Press; Bilingual (2005)
- Language: Spanish
- ISBN-10: 1595156739
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Did It Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein?by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger
GoodReads ave rating - 3.25 - 4 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: In Did It Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? you will find answers to twenty questions about Albert Einstein. Facts you'll discover include: How long did it take young Einstein to speak? Why didn't Einstein get straight A's at school? What idea made Einstein world famous? How did Einstein help end World War II?
This item is currently eligible for Amazon's 4-for-3 promotionYou'll also learn about relativity - the amazing theory that explains how time and space can appear to grow or shrink, depending on who's looking at them! Experiments you can do at home let you see how space and even light can bend. And plenty of photographs and illustrations show Einstein as a boy at school, a celebrity scientist with wild hair, and much, much more.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 2,681
Page Count: 48
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.7 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 117169
Lexile: 760L
- Publisher: Scholastic (2007)
- ISBN-10: 0439833841
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Albert Einstein (Great Names)by Anne Marie Sullivan
GoodReads ave rating - 3.75 - 4 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: Albert Einstein's life took him to many countries. But his mind journeyed even further - further than any explorer had ever traveled. On the outside, he was a quiet child who grew into a quiet man with messy hair and rumpled clothes. On the inside, his mind soared like a bird, seeing a world that others could never even imagine. His deep love for math and science launched us into the atomic age. As a world-famous scientist, he devoted his life to research. As a man who had seen too much war, he devoted himself to the cause of world peace.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 2,671
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 63041
- Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers (2002)
- ISBN-10: 1590841409
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Albert Einstein: Physicist and Geniusby Joyce Goldenstern
GoodReads ave rating - 3.33 - 3 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: Have you ever stepped into an elevator and wondered what it would feel like if it suddenly fell out of control? Albert Einstein thought about it a lot. Thinking about space and gravity in this way helped Einstein form his general theory of relativity, one of the most important scientific ideas of the twentieth century. With his wild, bushy white hair, Albert Einstein is the symbol of genius.
Though Albert Einstein is remembered mostly as being a scientific genius, he was also concerned with helping people. During World War II, he assisted many Jews fleeing the Nazis. After the war, the people of Israel asked him to be their president. Einstein declined; he still had unanswered scientific questions to solve. Today, scientists are still hard at work trying to solve some of Einstein's questions.
Reading Information:Word Count: 12,136
Page Count: 128
Accelerated Reading Level: 4.9 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 15629 / grade: Middle Grades
- Publisher: Enslow Publishers (2001)
- ISBN-10: 0766018644
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Quien Fue Albert Einstein? (Who Was Albert Einstein?)by Jess M. Brallier
Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)
GoodReads ave rating - 3.94 - 131 votes (updated 2/2012)
Description: Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed.
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 9,900
Page Count: 112
Accelerated Reading Level: 5.0 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 57657SP
- Publisher: Altea (2009)
- Language: Spanish
- ISBN-10: 1603964274
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Who Was Albert Einstein? -- English versionThis item is currently eligible for Amazon's 4-for-3 promotion
Reading Information:
Word Count: 8,922
Page Count: 112
Accelerated Reading Level: 5.8 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 57657
Lexile: 810L
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (2002)
- ISBN-10: 0448424967
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