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Outrageous Women of the American Frontier
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Mary Rodd Furbee |
Incredible true stories of the most amazing women in American history They were courageous, resourceful pioneers, enduring and adventurous. They made arduous journeys, carved careers out of the wi… |
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The Cambridge Companion to Darwin
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Jonathan Hodge |
The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809-82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life… |
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The horse-riding adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War messenger
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Amanda Doering Tourville |
In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and bur… |
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Blackout
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John Rocco |
It was a normal summer night in the city. Hot, noisy, busy. And then the lights went out, and everything changed. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, because not everyone likes normal. When a bus… |
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Henri Poincaré
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Jeremy J. Gray |
"Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and … |
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Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning in history
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Terry Haydn |
"Nearly all history teachers are interested in how new technology might be used to improve teaching and learning in history. However, not all history departments have had the time, expertise and guid… |
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Brilliant Blunders
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Mario Livio |
We all make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, Willia… |
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Jacqueline Wilson
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John Bankston |
When Jacqueline Wilson was 16, she dropped out of school, a choice that could have been devastating. Instead, she soon began writing for a teen magazine named Jackie. Married with a daughter before s… |
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The Innovators
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Walter Isaacson |
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… |
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Contemporary Biographies in Chemistry
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Salem Press |
Contemporary Biographies in Chemistry is a collection of biographies of "living leaders" in the field of chemistry. A supplement to Salem Press's Careers in Science series, a career-focused series ex… |
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Wake Up Missing
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Kate Messner |
After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose pl… |
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Iceling
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Sasha Stephenson |
With their scientist parents away on a research expedition, seventeen-year-old Lorna is left in charge of her younger sister Callie, an Arctic Recovery Orphan, or "iceling," who one night builds a mo… |
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Mindscape
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M. M. Vaughan |
Guilt-ridden, Christopher Lane returns to Myers Holt, the secret London academy where he and five others are being trained to use their psychic Ability to help the police, while Ernest, the identical… |
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Astrotwins
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Mark E. Kelly |
"Young Mark Kelly and his brother and friends decide to build a rocket over the summer when their constant bickering starts to annoy their grandfather in this middle-grade novel based on the NASA ast… |
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Langston Hughes
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Jennifer Joline Anderson |
An introduction to the life and career of the beloved 20th-century American author, poet, and playwright. |
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Struck by genius
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Jason Padgett |
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movem… |
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Shapes
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Ivan Bulloch,Wendy Clemson,David Clemson |
Teaches the principles of symmetry, tesselation, and two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes by means of various handicrafts. |
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Learning about integrity from the life of Eleanor Roosevelt
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Nancy Ellwood |
A brief biography examining the value of integrity in the life of the First Lady who devoted herself to helping others and working for peace. |
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For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too
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Christopher Emdin |
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience o… |
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Forces of nature
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Nate Ball |
Ever since Amp crash-landed his spaceship through Zack McGee s window, Zack s life has gone in some unexpected directions. But when everything goes wrong on the McGee family camping trip, Zack s goin… |
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