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Author
Language
English
Description
"It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. [This book] looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans--who are just a tiny speck in the sweep of Earth's history"--...
2) Anne Frank
Author
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
3) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America. This book follows the same standards as other National Geographic Readers with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and fun approach that kids love. The life story of Rosa Parks has enduring lessons to teach us and this biography should appeal to kids, parents, and teachers"--
Author
Series
Do animals? volume 4
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful addition to the Do Animals... series, which includes Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate?, Do Lizards Eat Ice Cream?, and Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?, that playfully introduces young readers to more ways animal behavior is -- and isn't -- like ours. Just like humans, animals have unique routines to take care of themselves--from hygiene habits, to getting their vitamins, to treating wounds! Do hippos brush their teeth? NO!--not exactly. But they...
14) Ballet school
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Looks at a typical year in the daily lives, studies, and training of students at England's Royal Ballet School.
16) Robot rampage!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Donatello builds a robot to help fight evil, but when it malfunctions, Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a technological terror to battle.
Author
Series
Storm dragons volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon--believed to be extinct--and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance. Remy spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge--one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse. (It used to be a 156-story treehouse, but they've added 13 more stories.) It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a whatever-weather-you-want dome and a hall of funhouse mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of funhouse mirrors is also the place where their evil trouble-making twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"In this poetic picture book, two curious siblings observe the hidden world of a vernal pool: a special kind of puddle habitat that pops up in the spring, dries up by summer, reappears in the fall, freezes over in the winter -- only to come back again in the spring. Linda's buoyant text is nothing short of an anthem for these "now-you-see-me, now-you-don't" wetland habitats, encouraging young naturalists and future water stewards to listen, watch...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jenny Chow, determined to hold her own in her family's annual chopsticks challenge, creates a solution through STEAM trial and error to master those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks. Includes instructions on how to make DIY chopstick tongs.
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