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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Your belly is full of tiny creatures! Vivid watercolors and lively text teach kids about the garden of microscopic flora growing inside them, how it keeps them healthy, and how they can help it thrive"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math each play an important part in the photography industry. This volume takes a look at various photography industry jobs, discussing what it takes to obtain these jobs and what types of tasks each job entails. Includes before and after reading activities.
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Language
English
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Description
In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe edition with 16 pages of bonus material! Experience the forces that shaped an American icon — and America itself — in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before
...6) Rugby
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Whether you're new to rugby or a scrum veteran, this guide will help you explore all of rugby's action and excitement.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom. After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in contemporary composition studies, he devised an innovative...
Author
Series
Zhong zi zhi shu volume 1
Publisher
Yuan zu wen hua fa xing
Pub. Date
2018.01
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground...
10) The new organic grower: a master's manual of tools and techniques for the home and market gardener
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the European intensive growers, [this book] offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. Gardeners working on 2.5 acres or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time."--
Author
Publisher
Northfield Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In raising children, everything depends on the love relationship between parent and child. Just as you are God's child and he sees you through your trials and tribulations, helping you grow and mature in every way, you need to build a solid foundation for your child to trust you and flourish through childhood.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? In 2003, an essay by John D'Agata was rejected by the magazine that commissioned it due to factual inaccuracies. That essay--which eventually became the foundation of D'Agata's critically acclaimed About a Mountain--was accepted by another magazine, but not before they handed it to their own fact-checker, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
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On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood, and as many as three hundred African Americans were killed, most buried in unmarked graves. Thousands were left homeless. No official investigation occurred until seventy-five years later. Unspeakable helps young readers understand the events of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial...
17) Hello winter!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The basic facts about the season of Winter including how plants, animals, and the climate change and adapt are included in this photo essay introduction to Winter"--
18) Nursery earth: the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation point. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation points are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a Discworld character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. So what's the deal with ! ? AN ADMIRABLE POINT recuperates...
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