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2019., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 910.9 SLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Epic fails Volume: 4Summary Note: "Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark unknown requires an enormous amount of bravery. But every explorer quickly learns that courage and curiosity aren't enough to save you if you can't read a map or trespass on somebody else's land!"--From the publisher's web site.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 629.4 SLADER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Epic FallsSummary Note: "In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, readers will learn about the many failures that made up the Space Race, paving the way for humanity's eventual success at reaching the stars."--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Book Press Call No: HI-INT 629.4 SLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Epic fails Volume: 2Summary Note: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it 'Kaputnik.' Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HI-INT 363.73 RHU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A timely and important illustrated nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today can rise to action"--Provided by the publisher.
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2014., Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: 972. 87 Pas Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What Is?
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[2016], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: 977.3 Pas Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What Is?Summary Note: "Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting"--
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Penguin Workshop Call No: 974.71 SMI Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Series Title: What was--?Summary Note: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance"--
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-- What is the civil rights movement.[2020]., Juvenile, Penguin Workshop Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"
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Call No: 921 MAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Is Area 51 a top secret military base that lies in the middle of the barren Nevada desert? Or could it actually be a facility for examining aliens and their spaceships? People can't drive anywhere close to it; the US government rarely acknowledges its existence; and until recently, the airspace overhead was restricted! Conspiracy theories abound about what goes on at Area 51, especially since 1947 when strange objects were found in the middle of a field in Roswell, New Mexico. Author Paula K. Manzanero explains why Area 51 was established and reveals the mystery behind those unidentified flying objects in the sky. Check out this book and decide what you believe.
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[2018]., Penguin Workshop, An Imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: SER 358.4 MAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Where Is:
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[2018]., Juvenile, Penguin Workshop, An Imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: SER 001.94 STI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Where is (Grosset & Dunlap)Summary Note: "Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic reputation. The Bermuda Triangle became famous for making boats and ships vanish, and for snatching planes right out of the sky. But are these stories true? And if they are true, is there a more sensible reason that refutes the bad karma of the region? With so many mystifying events to learn about, readers will love disappearing into this story"--
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[2015], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: B POE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was...?Summary Note: Provides a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, covering his personal life and professional accomplishments. Includes black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and further resources.
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[2014]., Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was--?Summary Note: Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."
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[2013]., Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: B Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
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[2016], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: Biography BRADLEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was--?Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of Milton Bradley, creator of modern board games, from his boyhood in New England growing up loving games, to how he became a talented inventor and printer.