Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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2003., Children's Press Call No: 981 FON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A to ZSummary Note: Explores the history, geography, economy, people, culture, and other aspects of Brazil, featuring a topic for each letter of the alphabet.
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2011., Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While the Wright Brothers were gliding over Kitty Hawk, the charming Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont was floating over Paris in his personal flying machine called a dirigible. But he wanted to make his invention even better. By 1906, Alberto had transformed his balloon into a box with wings! But now there was competition. Another inventor challenged Alberto to see who would be the first in flight. Alberto's hard work paid off, and his airplane successfully soared into the air.
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[2016]., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HI-INT B LOP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nemesis is the riveting account of Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes' ruthless ascent in Rio's terrifying underworld, his sway over its anarchic outlaw culture, and his accidental fall. Known as "Nem," he tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, but he quickly found himself embroiled in a world of gold hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police officers and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees.
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[2016]., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nemesis is the riveting account of Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes' ruthless ascent in Rio's terrifying underworld, his sway over its anarchic outlaw culture, and his accidental fall. Known as "Nem," he tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, but he quickly found himself embroiled in a world of gold hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police officers and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees.
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By Byers, Ann2017., Juvenile, Rosen Publishing Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on explorers and colonization.Summary Note: A biography of Pedro Alvares Cabrals, including his childhood, exploration assignments, and the impact, both positive and negative, of his voyages to India and Brazil.
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2007., Juvenile, DK Pub. Call No: Biography PELE` Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: DK biographySummary Note: A biography of soccer star Pele. Describes how he grew up in Brazil playing soccer with a ball made of a sock filled with newspaper and rose quickly when his talent was discovered. Relates how Pele became the only player to win three World Cup trophies.
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[2023]., Primary, Charlesbridge Call No: 598.47 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When an oil-covered penguin washes up in Brazil, Seu Joô saves its life. The man and penguin become friends, and the penguin won't return to the wild"--Provided by the publisher.
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2017., Primary, Viking Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The true story of the British explorer Percy Fawcett, who set out on a doomed expedition to find a lost city in the Amazon jungle.
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2013., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 599.66 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Some of nature's shyest animals, tapirs are hard to find, and therefore hard to study. Lowland tapirs are rapidly disappearing from their home in Brazil--but scientist Pati Medici hopes to change that.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: B Edition: First English editi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Esperanca Garcia was a slave who lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests in Brazil - until the day she was separated from her husband and older children and taken, with her two little ones, to be the cook in another household. There her life became much, much harder. In desperation, and with extraordinary courage, Esperanca wrote a letter to the governor describing how she and her children were being mistreated and asking permission to return to the farm.