David A Adler
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 21
Language
English
Description
When a thief takes the box office money at the school play, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
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Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 22
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50 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
On her first day of fifth grade, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help the police find a car thief. Includes a memory game.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team tease him for being a 'butterfingers' who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan up his sleeve to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins"--
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Series
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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English
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"Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to helping American farmworkers. As a child growing up in California during the Great Depression, he picked produce with his family. Cesar saw firsthand how unfairly workers were treated. As an adult, he organized farmworkers into unions and argued for better pay and fair working conditions. He was jailed for his efforts, but he never stopped urging people to stand up for their rights."--Amazon.com.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"An apple floats in a tub of water, but a ball of aluminum foil sinks to the bottom. But wait. If that same ball of foil is flattened out and shaped into a boat, it floats! How can that be? David A. Adler's clear, concise text and Anna Raff's delightful illustrations explain the basic principles of flotation and density in a way that will really sink in"--Front dust jacket flap.
9) Place value
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29 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"The mathematical concept of place value is explained using a place value chart, descriptions of how money is notated, and humorous examples from a recipe that a group of monkeys is using to make a gigantic banana muffin"--
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 23
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cam Jansen, with Eric at her side, helps solve the mystery of what happened to Mr. Day's tennis trophy.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 15
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56 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Introduces the seven symbols and their values, shows how to add and subtract to make numbers. Teaches how the symbols interact and about the bar across the top and the open box that are used for larger numbers. Shows Roman numerals in real life settings: on clocks, in books, and on buildings.
13) Circles
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"The characteristics of circles as well as how to find the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of a circle are explained and illustrated in this geometry picture book."--
14) Time zones
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
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English
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Discusses the reasons for time differences in different parts of the world and the history behind the division of the world into twenty-four time zones.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 3
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why.
When it is discovered that dinosaur bones are missing from the natural history museum, Cam Jansen--noted for her photographic memory--and her friend Eric search for clues.
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138 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...
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31 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Sometimes prices go up and up and up. Then they suddenly crash. Why? In simple language and with colorful graphics and amusing characters, this picture book explains the basic laws of supply and demand, using examples kids will understand, such as dueling lemonade stands on the same block. Terms such as "fixed costs" and "variable costs" are clearly explained, and a glossary as well as a helpful graphic summary are included.