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Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Great Barrier Reef teems with life. From algae to a grey reef shark, the animals in this book are linked together in a food chain. Each one of them needs the others in order to live. Find out what eats what in the ocean!
2) Astrobiology
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publication Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Astrobiologists compare life on Earth to signs of life on other planets, study space mission photos, and listen for signals from alien civilizations. Learn all about this cool and amazing research in this fast-paced peek into future life!
Author
Series
Piper McCloud volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
You just can't keep a good girl down... unless you use the proper methods. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for...
Author
Series
House of Night. Original series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird - she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents the first three books in the series which chronicles the catastrophes and misfortunes of the resourceful Baudelaire children, as they become wealthy orphans and must elude a distant relative, the greedy and dastardly Count Olaf.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The 1930s in America will always be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Michael L. Cooper takes readers through this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, known as the Dust Bowl. He chronicles the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California...
Publisher
Yankee Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ingenious ways to save precious minutes and hours on daily tasks and household routines from clogged toilets to tax return shortcuts to gift ideas that take two minutes. Shameless Shortcuts can save you as much as 30 minutes a day -- every day.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
12) Helicopters
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of flight, focusing on the development of helicopters, and discussing their use for both military and civilian purposes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Are you ready for the gross? The wild? The unimaginable? You haven't seen anything yet. Turn the pages if you dare. But watch out for: gruesome ghosts that haunt your favorite hangouts!; disgusting scabies mites that crawl under your skin!; a belch so loud, it rivals the sound of an airplane taking off! More mummies, crazy cars, and peculiar people than ever! It's all weird, and it's all inside Believe It or Not! Complete with full-color photos and...
15) Among the Hidden
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.