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1) Are you big?
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[2024]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Are YOU big? A simple question sends readers to the far reaches of the universe"--
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2024.
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English
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"This visually stunning portrait of Black photographer Roy DeCarava, a child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, takes readers through 1940s Harlem where beauty is everywhere as he immortalizes and documents the lives of ordinary Black people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations."--
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Sharing borders with five countries, Switzerland is known for the beauty of its mighty Alps and its multicultural society. Read all about the country's land and resources, the population-dense central plateau, and its early settlement, as well as daily life and culture today for people across Switzerland."--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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92 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"Antarctica is a land of extremes--the coldest, windiest, highest, and driest place on the planet. It's a world where the sun stays hidden half of the year and where visitors must undergo a week of special training before it's safe to go outside (watch out for lava bombs!). It's also a place of stark beauty, history, and endless scientific research. Join beloved author G. Neri on his long-dreamed-of voyage to the ice, where he taps into his inner...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"If you could go anywhere beyond our galaxy for the perfect picnic, where would you go? Asa Stahl, an NSTA award-winner for his previous book The Big Bang Book, introduces readers to some of the fascinating exoplanets we know about it. This is science at its most fantastical. What other worlds are out there, and will the young person reading this book grow up to discover even more?"--
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Pub. Date
2024
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! This edition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
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English
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The story of the world's most famous diamonds -- stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London -- is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their heads high.
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English
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"Gender inequality is something that happens in lots of ways, every day. But it doesn't have to! This book helps kids to notice when things are unfair, ask why, and do something about it. Equality is worth standing up for because each one of us matters, and when we are all included and represented equally, we all thrive"--Back cover.
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"When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"--
14) Desert queen
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Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan. Lit by an inner fire and propelled by a family tragedy, Harish defied the gender conventions of middle class Indian life, battled discrimination and intimidation, and eventually grew up to dance with Bollywood movie stars and on stages across the world. Jyoti Gopal's rhythmic phrases evoke the particular...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
Description
"In 16th century Portugal, to be Jewish was to live in secret. Doña Gracia used her wealth and power to escape, helping many other Jews to do the same. She built synagogues, hospitals, and schools to help her people"--
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
17) All charged up!
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"From phones to lightbulbs to electric cars, electricity is something we can't live without! Breaking down concepts like atoms, current, and magnetism, acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown demonstrates how our world became connected by electricity. Brown highlights key inventors and scientific breakthroughs, including Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment using a kite as a lightning rod (don't try it at home!), the dramatic rivalry behind the creation...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Maggie Nichols' official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the USA national gymnastic team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. In 2015, Maggie risked everything when she revealed to her coach how USAG doctor Larry Nassar had been sexually abusing the athletes under his care. What ensued was an investigation that would capture the nation, involving multiple faculty members of the gymnastics...
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but can you spot the differences between these two gigantic reptiles? Learn what makes each prehistoric creature unique and more in this toothy introduction to alligators and crocodiles.
"This updated edition vetted by an expert introduces young readers to everything they would want to know about the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, alligators and crocodiles. With...
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