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256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Helps parents to get a grasp on what their children learn in geography class.
Help your kids to be the best in their geography class. This book will help you to understand what they're being taught so you can answer all their geography questions. This book is what every frustrated parent needs. Its innovative approach combines colorful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step explanations, making geography easier to understand than ever before....
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238 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the characters. With characters from Norse myths coming to life on the big and small screens, and in the pages of new and exciting fiction, this guide can give you all the details you need to understand your favorite heroes, villains, and powerful deities. With comprehensive entries that outline each character's names,...
4) Earth
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Suit up! Earth is a planet like no other, and it's time to explore it through a colorful design that features vibrant photography, engaging infographics, and carefully leveled text"--
5) Saturn
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Suit up! Saturn is a planet like no other, and it's time to explore it through a colorful design that features vibrant photography, engaging infographics, and carefully leveled text"--
6) Mars
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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A kindergarten-level introduction to the planet Mars, covering its orbital process, its moons, and such defining features as its rocks, dust storms, and name.
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336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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This comprehensive, accessible, and factual guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. Celebrating the scientific, literary, and artistic achievements of the Islamic Golden Age and the ideas of philosophers and theologians across...
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63 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Have you ever tried counting how many occupations there are? Impossible, isn't it? These endless choices are wonderful, though, since they allow everyone to find the right job for them. Whether your interests lie in computers, dance, music, history, math, transportation, space, or the ocean deep, you can find a use for them in adulthood-by building your work around what you love! Come with us to learn about the little-known occupations that move...
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x, 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Wildfires are getting more destructive than ever before. Flames in forests are scorching about twice as many trees as they did two decades ago, and nearly 100,000 homes, barns, and other structures have been incinerated. "Fire seasons" are now fire years. Tens of millions of people live in areas vulnerable to fire, and more keep moving in. Driven in part by climate change, the areas burned and prevalence of smoke in the skies is expected to skyrocket...
10) Chasing the sun
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm
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English
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"An Arctic tern can fly as many as 50,000 miles in its annual migration, and as this bird chases summer across the hemispheres, it sees more sunlight than any other living thing. In this luminous celebration of such astonishing aerial feats, author and visual artist Timothy Musso charts the migratory path of an Arctic tern family with intricately designed woodcut illustrations that propel the reader along as a partner on a most incredible journey....
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77 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Did you know that rhinoceroses are the second biggest land animal in the world, second only to elephants? How about that rhinos have especially poor eyesight? Or that white and black rhinos are called that even though neither of them is black or white?
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Searching for simple paper folding projects for your makerspace? You've found them! From happy hounds and clever cats to floating ships and shining stars, these amazing 10-minute origami projects will have kids making in no time!"--
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118 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Codes can carry big secrets! Throughout history, lots of good guys and lots of bad guys have used codes to keep their messages under wraps. This fun and flippable nonfiction features stories of hidden treasures, war-time maneuverings, and contemporary hacking as well as explaining the mechanics behind the codes in accessible and kid friendly forms. Sidebars call out activities that invite the reader to try their own hand at cracking and crafting...
14) Africana
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89 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm
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English
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"Explore the deep history of Africa's 54 unique countries, from being the birthplace of humanity and the rise of its powerful kingdoms, to the devastating impact of its colonial past. Then join us to celebrate Africa's awe-inspiring nature, its vibrant food, festivals and customs. Visit its bustling cities and meet the pioneers, musicians, artists, and innovators who call this land home."--
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xviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Journalist Kenneth Miller weaves science with history to tell the story of four outsider academics who carried the study of sleep from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession. In the 1920s Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world's first dedicated sleep lab, with breakthrough experiments in 1938. Kleitman mentored Eugene Aserinsky who discovered REM sleep, and William Dement, who became known as the father of sleep medicine. Dement, in turn, mentored...
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"This stunning book from Merriam-Webster introduces hundreds of words you will need to talk like a dinosaur expert! Travel back in time millions of years and discover how these amazing creatures lived, ate, fought, raised their young--and find out how paleontologists use the clues in fossils to make new breakthroughs." -- Back cover.
"This ... book from Merriam-Webster introduces hundreds of words [one] will need to talk like a dinosaur expert!"--...
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Discovering life's story volume 1
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185 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"This first of a four-part MITeen series charts the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when the origins of the virus was discovered by a baffled Dutch biologist who found a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops"--
From the earliest questioning about how life-forms began to the original use of the word virus, Hakim begins to unfold the history of our scientific quest to understand life itself. This book, the first of a four-part...
19) The Hopi
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Hopi people. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
20) Travelers
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61 pages : illustrations, color ; 34 cm.
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English
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"Calling all animal lovers! This is your chance to learn about 9 amazing animals considered 'smart travelers.' Are you curious to know where they're going? Travel with the Arctic tern, the Chinook salmon, the plains zebra, the red crab, the barn swallow, the great white shark, the common crane, the reindeer, and the monarch butterfly. Each page presents beautiful illustrations full of facts and habitat descriptions that will surely amaze and inform."...
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