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by Debra Frasier
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In simple words and radiant collages, Debra Frasier celebrates the natural miracles of the earth and extends an exuberant welcome to each member of our human family. Accompanied by a detailed glossary explaining such natural phenomena as gravity, tides, and migration, this is an unforgettable book.
“A...
March Forward, Girl
From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoirof growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South.
Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated...
Drowned City
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ Kirkus’ Best of 2015 list ∙ School Library Journal Best of 2015 ∙ Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2015 list ∙ Horn Book Fanfare Book ∙ Booklist Editor's Choice
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective...
by David Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates the worldwide bestseller The New Way Things Work to capture the latest developments in the technology that most impacts our lives. Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi,...
Phineas Gage
A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.
At...
by Elizabeth George Speare
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)
The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old...
by Scott O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning.
The Hive Detectives
Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees became...
Creature Features
Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Dear axolotl: Why do you have feathers growing out of your head?
Axolotl: They aren't feathers—they're gills! They let me breathe underwater.
Let's face it. Even as babies, we humans pay close attention to faces. Observing another person's features and expressions tells us whether...
Mission to Pluto
The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of...
A Dog in the Cave
The Wolves Who Made Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean?
Fossils show we’ve shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there’s growing evidence that we influenced dogs’ evolution—and they, in turn, changed ours. Even...
Secrets of Sound
Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Can whales communicate across miles of vast ocean? Can elephants talk to one another with sounds we cannot hear? These are the kinds of questions that drive the work of acoustic biologists. Follow three creative scientists—Christopher W., Clark, Katy Payne, and Bill Evans—as they research why...
Saving Fiona
The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The amazing, true story of Fiona, a baby hippo born prematurely at the Cincinnati Zoo, the team of scientists and caregivers who nursed her to health, and the vast community in Cincinnati and beyond who rallied around her. Includes full-color behind-the-scenes photographs throughout.
On a cold...
by Gail Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. In Gail Gibbons’s bright illustrations, Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for...