01425cam a2200349 4500 339269534 TxAuBib 20130830120000.0 101118s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010043402 9780152061456 0152061452 (OCoLC)456170169 TxAuBib Johnston, Tony, 1942- Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea : A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants / written by Tony Johnston ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst. Boston : Houghton Children's Books, 2011. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Accelerated Reader Word Count - 1098. Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans. Accelerated Reader AR Lower grades (K-3) 3.9 0.5 145966. 20130830. Strauss, Levi 1829-1902 Fiction. Jeans (Clothing) Fiction. Clothing and dress Fiction. Gold mines and mining California Fiction. Tall tales. California History 1850-1950 Fiction. California History Fiction. Innerst, Stacy, ill. ALEML