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Scholastic Press
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The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 people. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a mile-wide monster that destroyed heart of a vibrant city. The true stories of these two events plus fascinating facts, profiles of tornado scientists and storm chasers.--
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl,...
4) Space
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 6
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Random House
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[2002]
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English
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Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.
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Probably Garcia Marquez's finest and most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece of the art of fiction.
6) Whose butt?
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Adventure Publications
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[2012]
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English
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Invites readers to guess what animal they are looking at based on an image of the animal's bottom.
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
10) The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...
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Little, Brown
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Presents the lyrics to Woody Guthrie's classic song "This Land Is Your Land" along with rich illustrations of America's many landscapes; the musical notation; a biographical scrapbook about the singer; and an audio CD of nine songs performed by Woody and Arlo Guthrie.
13) Me on the map
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A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.
14) Calamity Jack
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A graphic novel that presents the adventures of Jack in a city filled with fairy tale characters.
16) The three pigs
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The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
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Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 1
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Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
18) Turn a blind eye
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William Warwick novels volume 3
Detective William Warwick volume 3
A William Warwick novel volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Detective William Warwick volume 3
A William Warwick novel volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
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William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William’s team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation.
Meanwhile,...
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Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe and their friends embark on an exciting counting adventure through the grasslands of Tanzania, discovering all different kinds of African animals as they count from one to ten. Includes facts about Tanzania and information about each animal, the Masai people and the Swahili language.