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English
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Read and find out the science behind a pandemic and how to stay safe in this illustrated, informative nonfiction picture book. Everybody gets sick now and then-maybe with a runny nose or a sore throat. But sometimes, a lot of people get sick at once. If a disease spreads all over the world, that's a pandemic. The current COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of kids across the world and has caused fear and confusion as people in charge have given...
5) Pale rider
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
Publisher
DK Smithsonian
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ever wondered what happens to an astronaut’s space suit after it’s been worn on the Moon? Or how the world’s most valuable diamond is looked after? Find out all about how museums work and the people who make it happen—from how historians preserve and care for Anne Frank’s diary to what it takes for an archaeologist and curator to excavate and exhibit an enormous wooly mammoth skeleton. You’ll even find out about the bugs and pests that...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dinosaurs existed. That's a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before humans was unfathomable. People thought what we know as dinosaur bones were the bones of giant humans. Of large elephants. Of angels, even. So, how did we get from angel wings to the T-Rex? The First Dinosaur tells the story of the idea of dinosaurs, and the chain of fossil discoveries and...
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Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Discover how and why mummies were made in this fascinating black-and-white chapter book about ancient Egypt. Explore pyramids, temples, and tombs, and find out the secrets of the art of embalming. You’ll learn all about the ancient Egyptians themselves as well: their everyday lives, their belief in the gods, and their powerful pharaohs. Microbites series, 96pp.
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bring chemistry to your kitchen with a book that offers hands-on science activities that can be done with ingredients from your pantry and the refrigerator! What's going on when you cook in the kitchen? Science! In Kitchen Chemistry: Cool Crystals, Rockin' Reactions, and Magical Mixtures with Hands-On Science Activities, readers ages 9 to 12 discover that the cooking, mixing, and measuring you do in the kitchen all has its roots deep in science-chemistry...
10) Evolución
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Series
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Discover the mysteries of science with Future Geniuses! Darwin the chicken feels like the smallest animal in the farm, but he wants to be big and strong like a dinosaur. Come along with Valentina in this adventure about the history of evolution and find out how she gets Darwin to feel proud of who he is! Future Geniuses is a collection that will help families spend a lot of time reading and learning together. Through simple and fun illustrations,...
11) Dragons
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Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Dragons , readers learn about all the sightings and "proof" of them, from stories in history of dragons that terrorized towns, the people who fought them such as St. George and King Arthur, and stories from other cultures, including China, Japan, and Mexico. This book also discusses additional history about the monster, such as how dragons became major figures in popular culture, "modern" dragons, and theories behind their conception in our cultural...
12) Annihilation
Series
Southern Reach trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
13) Paint your wagon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share.
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that scientists have developed a bionic tool shaped like an elephant's trunk that helps lift heavy objects? Or that the needle-like pointed beak of the kingfisher bird encouraged engineers in Japan to change the design of the Shinkansen "bullet trains" to reduce noise? Across multiple fields of study and methods of problem-solving, scientists are turning to biomimicry, or engineering inspired by biology or nature, to make all kinds of...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Land ho! Discover what the Age of Exploration was all about in this wonderful addition to?the bestselling Who HQ series! Before the fifteenth century, European sailors were unsure what waited for them beyond their well-known travel routes around the Mediterranean Sea, so they kept within sight of land. But all of that changed after Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal started sending ships down the coast in the hope of finding a sea route to India...
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Publisher
Nomad Press
Language
English
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An exciting book about the chain reaction world of Rube Goldberg for middle schoolers, including 25 engineering design projects that get middle schoolers applying the laws of physics to their own inventions as they learn the scientific principles behind the actions and reactions they create. Why use a simple hand motion to wipe your mouth when you can build a machine to do it for you? Toppling dominoes, rolling marbles, racing balloon cars, springing...
Publisher
Monarch Films, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Follow four men and one woman who retrace the historic route taken during the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. The 10-week journey takes them along the infamous Chilkoot Trail, and to the gold fields near Dawson City using only the clothes, tools, and resources of the era.
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Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Full of weird and wacky facts and retro-inspired illustrations, Amazing Inventions is the perfect, fun introduction to everything from robots to nanoscience. Prepare to laugh, marvel, and learn. ? Did you know that the ancient Egyptians may have used kites to help build their pyramids? That robots have a hard time learning karate? Or that Australian nanoscientists have manufactured a garment that you can clean by just holding it up to the light? Covering...
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