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Haunted histories: creepy castles, dark dungeons, and powerful palaces
By Marilyn Scott-Waters, J. H. Everett. 2013
Young "ghostorian" Virgil Dante guides readers through ancient castles, torture chambers, and dungeons. Highlights infamous figures associated with each haunted…
place or gruesome event. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2012Flying solo: how Ruth Elder soared into America's heart
By Julie Cummins, Malene R. Laugesen. 2013
Biography of Ruth Elder (1902-1977), who wanted to be the first female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.…
Recounts Elder's first attempt that ended in a crash and the cross-country race that Ruth and nineteen other women entered. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2013Here there be monsters: the legendary kraken and the giant squid
By H. P. Newquist. 2010
Traces human knowledge of enormous sea creatures from Greek myth and sailor's tales to Melville and Verne's literary works and…
scientific evidence slowly gathered from around the world. Describes modern technological advances that enable marine researchers to probe the ocean depths for these elusive colossal squid. For grades 5-8. 2010The impossible rescue: the true story of an amazing Arctic adventure
By Martin W. Sandler. 2012
Recounts the 1897 rescue of approximately three hundred men who were stranded in Arctic waters when their eight whaling ships…
were trapped in ice. Describes the fifteen-hundred-mile journey of three men from the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service--predecessor to the U.S. Coast Guard--who transported life-saving provisions. For grades 5-8. 2012Women explorers: perils, pistols, and petticoats
By Cheryl Harness, Julia Cummins, Julie Cummins. 2012
Profiles ten female explorers born before 1900. One explorer, Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972), was an heiress who planned, led, and…
financed seven expeditions to the Arctic. Another, Nellie Cashman (1850-1925), drove a dogsled over 750 miles of ice and snow at age seventy. For grades 4-7. 2012You are the first kid on Mars
By Patrick O'Brien. 2009
Describes a future trip that a child might take to Mars: taking a space elevator to a space station, traveling…
in a rocket, wearing a space suit, and learning about the scientific search for Martian life. Discusses the Mars environment and a habitat created for humans. For grades 2-4. 2009Sky sailors: true stories of the balloon era
By David L. Bristow, David Bristow. 2010
Discusses human flight before the invention of the airplane. Recounts the balloon-based travels of daring men and women from 1783…
to the early 1900s, including two children who went up by accident. Describes the dangers posed by high winds, lightning, lack of oxygen, and extreme cold. For grades 4-7. 2010Wild Outside: Around the World with Survivorman
By Les Stroud, Andrew Barr, Laura Bombier. 2021
Birchbark brigade: a fur trade history
By Cris Peterson. 2009
Discusses three hundred years of North American frontier trade between European explorers with manufactured goods and Indians with animal pelts.…
Traces the growth of trading companies. Describes the traders' living conditions and the large birch-bark canoes they used for transportation. For grades 5-8. 2009Warriors: power of three (Warriors: Power of Three Ser.)
By Erin Hunter. 2010
In a troubled time for the Four Clans, three young cats of ThunderClan--Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and Lionpaw--become apprentices. During their training…
as warriors they have many adventures, learn a shocking secret, and discover their true destiny. Complete series of six books. For grades 4-7. 2009Kakapo rescue: saving the world's strangest parrot (Scientists in the Field)
By Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop. 2010
Discusses the plight of the nearly extinct New Zealand kakapo--a large, flightless parrot. Explains the recovery-team scientists' work of moving…
the remaining kakapo population to a safe environment and ensuring the birds' protection during the hatching season. For grades 5-8. 2010American archaeology uncovers the Vikings (American archaeology)
By Lois Miner Huey. 2010
Examines the long-held theory that Vikings landed in North America five hundred years before Columbus did. Discusses archaeological evidence of…
a Viking settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland that was excavated between 1961-1968 and suggests reasons other Viking sites have not been discovered. For grades 4-7. 2010Before Columbus: the Americas of 1491
By Charles C. Mann. 2009
Portrays Native American societies in North, Central, and South America--their governments, agriculture, trade, and engineering feats. Discusses the age of…
the "New World," the military success of Europeans against larger armies, and whether the Americas were really a wilderness. Based on 1491 (DB 61198). For grades 5-8. 2009Extreme scientists: exploring nature's mysteries from perilous places (Scientists in the Field)
By Donna M. Jackson. 2009
Profiles the work and conditions of three extreme scientists: a meteorologist who flies into the eyes of hurricanes to gather…
data, a microbiologist who searches unexplored underground caves for microbes, and an ecologist who climbs giant redwoods to study the canopy. For grades 4-7. 2009Saving the ghost of the mountain: an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia (Scientists in the Field)
By Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop. 2009
Chronicles a trip to Altai Mountains, Mongolia, by scientist Tom McCarthy and his team, who study and protect the elusive…
snow leopard. Discusses McCarthy's background, interests, and enjoyment of field work. Provides facts on the animals, peoples, and history of the region. For grades 5-8. 2009The amazing Spider Man: evil comes in pairs, vol. 1 (Spider-Man Ser.)
By Kate Egan, Joe F. Merkel. 2008
Villains Venom and Carnage combine forces to defeat Spider-Man once and for all. Will Spider-Man be able to protect the…
innocent from two of his most dangerous foes at once? For grades 2-4The octopus scientists (Scientists in the Field)
By Sy Montgomery. 2022
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be…
an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It's baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow. But most intriguing of all, octopuses—classed as mollusks, like clams—are remarkably intelligent with quirky personalities. This book, an inquiry into the mind of an intelligent invertebrate, is also a foray into our own unexplored planet. These thinking, feeling creatures can help readers experience and understand our world (and perhaps even life itself) in a new wayThe last egret: the adventures of Charlie Pierce
By Harvey E Oyer, Harvey Oyer. 2010
An adventure story in late 1800's Florida when bird plumage was big business, and Florida was still wild. Teenager Charlie…
Pierce and his friends are forced to weigh the ecological implications of killing for profit, while on a bird hunting expedition to save his family's property. Award winner. For grades 3-6Sailing off to sleep
By Linda Ashman. 2001
Wild women of the Wild West
By Jonah Winter, Mary Morgan, Susan Guevara. 2011