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-- True story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic2016., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Traces the story of dancer-turned-magician's assistant Adelaide Herrmann, placing her achievements against a backdrop of period conventions about women in the arts and her determination to continue her work after the death of her husband."--OCLC.
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2016., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Describes the life of nineteenth-century female magician Adelaide Herrmann who followed her dreams by making a career out of entertaining others as a magician.
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c2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Best friends Agatha May Walker and Eulalie Scruggs, who live on opposite sides of busy Rushmore Boulevard, inspire their neighbors to come together and make their street a much more pleasant place.
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2014., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: JNF025190 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: " A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!"--
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[2015]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B LUD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!.
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[2015]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!.
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2015, Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: 001.4 2 Edition: 1st ed. 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of Benjamin Franklin's involvement in the early development of the scientific method during a visit to France during the American Revolution to drum up support for the colonists. When asked to determine if the invisible force that Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer claimed he was using to cure patients was genuine, Franklin devised a series of tests that provided the answer in clear results.
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2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: 973.3 092 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how Dr. Franz Mesmer tried to fool eighteenth-century Paris with his magical iron wand, but Benjamin Franklin refused to be fooled. Armed with the scientific method, Franklin proved that Mesmer's iron wand was a hoax. Also discusses the placebo effect and “blind” scientific studies.
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2015., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: 001.4 ROCKLIFF Edition: 1st ed. 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of Benjamin Franklin's involvement in the early development of the scientific method during a visit to France during the American Revolution to drum up support for the colonists. When asked to determine if the invisible force that Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer claimed he was using to cure patients was genuine, Franklin devised a series of tests that provided the answer in clear results.
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2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: 973.3 092 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Describes how Dr. Franz Mesmer tried to fool eighteenth-century Paris with his magical iron wand, but Benjamin Franklin refused to be fooled. Armed with the scientific method, Franklin proved that Mesmer's iron wand was a hoax. Also discusses the placebo effect and "blind" scientific studies.
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c2012., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.
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c2005., Primary, Sylvan Dell Pub. Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jody is entranced when her father wakes her up late one night and drives out into the country, promising to show her "pieces of another world." Includes facts about meteors and meteor showers.
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-- Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott[2022]., Juvenile, Random House Studio Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A brief, picture book biography of civil rights figure Georgia Gilmore, an African American woman who was inspired by the arrest of Rosa Parks to join the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s. Follows Gilmore as she meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and gets involved with the civil rights movement.
