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Quick view Night Sky by Stephanie Warren Drimmer Kids will learn all about the night sky, from the moon to constellations to planets, in this new National Geographic Reader. The level 2 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging information for beginning readers. View Details
Quick view DK Find Out! Solar System From the creators of DK findout!, the free online resource for kids, comes an exciting new book series full of amazing images, incredible quizzes, and cutting-edge information kids need to know. The DK findout! series helps kids become experts on their... View Details
Quick view Survive! Inside the Human Body, Volume 3: The Nervous System by Gomdori Co A wild ride. Positively clogged with scientific information." Kirkus Reviews Survive! Inside the Human Body, Volume 3 concludes our incredible tour of the human body with a wild ride through the nervous system. When Geo and Dr. Brain find themselves... View Details
Quick view Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems hc by Mary Batten Explores how and why plants and animals enter ecosystems to which they are not native, as well as the consequences of these invasions for other animals, plants, and humans. View Details
Quick view Ladies First: Women Athletes Who Made a Difference by Ken Rappaport A veteran journalist showcases a dozen of the 20th century's greatest female athletes--from tennis pro Althea Gibson, the first African-American woman to win at Wimbledon, to Susan Butcher, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. View Details
Quick view Kishina: The True Story of Gorilla Survival by Maxine Rock An account of the first baby gorilla born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, her various social encounters, and her move to Busch Gardens' Myombe Reserve. View Details
Quick view Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle by Ruth Ashby : In this fascinating new book, award-winning author Ruth Ashby shares the story of Darwin's famous journey aboard the British navy ship, the Beagle, which led to the development of his theories of evolution and natural selection. Ashby's lively account... View Details
Quick view At the Ocean Café: Odd Ocean Critter Poems by Leslie Bulion The ocean covers two-thirds of our planet. It is Earths largest ecosystem, full of organisms that make a living in wildly different and even extreme environments. This clever collection of poems for kids describes the devious and sometimes surprising... View Details
Quick view Miguel's' Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote by Margarita Engle Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who... View Details
Quick view First Dog Fala by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place. View Details
Quick view Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today by Cynthia Levinson Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution. Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were... View Details
Quick view Rocket Man: The Mercury Adventure John Glenn by Ruth Ashby This dramatic story of John Glenn's near-disastrous mission in "Friendship 7" also takes young readers through his small-town Ohio boyhood, his extraordinary experiences as a fighter pilot in two wars, and his life as an astronaut in NASA's prestigious... View Details
