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1) Kon-Tiki
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
Explorer, scientist and anthropologist, Thor Heyerdahl, sailed the seas using only the materials available five thousand years ago, in an effort to discover when and how man first learned to navigate the oceans.
2) Paws+Edward
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Paws + Edward is a dog-and-his-boy story, told from Paws' perspective. Paws is an old dog whose rabbit-chasing is limited to his dreams nowadays. When Paws dies, Edward is lost without his loyal companion, but finds solace and even happiness in his own memories and dreams of Paws. A light-touch look at the death of a pet, Paws + Edward is gently heartbreaking and heart-healing, hitting a perfect note for children and their grown-ups, too, who might...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Author
Publisher
HELVETIQ (Halvetiq Sari)
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women--from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera--who stood up to them. The book is not afraid to examine some of the worst crimes--public...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A mysterious postcard leads Lisa and Nilly from Oslo to Paris in search of Doctor Proctor but, once there, all they find of their missing friend is a time-traveling bathtub powered by a special soap and several sinister individuals determined to do all they can to locate the eccentric inventor.
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