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By Candace Fleming, Boris Kulikov. 2013
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and…
takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2013By Erin Jade Lange. 2013
Dane, a bully, gets caught fighting at school again and is assigned to work with Billy D., who has Down…
syndrome. A friendship forms, and Billy D. enlists Dane's help to find Billy's missing father. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2013By Jorge Volpi, Jorge Volpi Escalante. 2008
El matemático Gustav Links relata la historia del teniente Francis P. Bacon, enviado por los aliados en los tribunales de…
Nuremberg para encontrar y llevar a la justicia a Klingsor, un científico atómico nazi. Con su conocimiento de la matemática y la física, Bacon tiene que encontrar el paradero del misterioso Klingsor con poca informaciónBy Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sBy Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2015
Mary Mallon, who became known as "Typhoid Mary," was hired as a cook for a wealthy family in 1906. A…
few weeks later an outbreak of typhoid fever swept through the household. Eventually it was determined that Mallon was a healthy carrier, spreading the disease but not suffering it herself. She was arrested and quarantined against her will. This biography explores the many violations of Mallon's human and civil rights, the culture of the period, how the public and health officials responded, and the sensationalism of "yellow journalism." For grades 5-8By Kimberly Dean, James Dean, Kim Dean. 2015
By Inc. Staff Scholastic, Tres Seymour. 1999
By Judy Young, Andrea Wesson. 2011
By Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerIn the wake of the tragic suicide of a young, gay, university student, Tyler Clementi, the movement "It Gets Better"…
began, as thousands of user-created videos posted online echoed this message for LGBT youth of all races, backgrounds, and colors. Stemming from this movement, this collection of stories addresses the longstanding issues of sexual abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, racism, and homophobia in the African American and Latino communitites, and more specifically among young gay men of color. Contains some explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violenceBy Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey. 2007
High School sophomore Alfred Kropp, a descendant of Sir Lancelot, is extracted from his foster home to battle the demons…
imprisoned in a vessel that belonged to King Solomon. Sequel to The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (RC 62068). For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2007By Martin Kratt, Victoria Miles. 2004
Ten wildlife biologists describe their adventures studying and rescuing a blue whale, marmot, polar bear, sea otter, manatee, silver-haired bat,…
northern gannet, leatherback sea turtle, grizzly bear, and grey wolf. They discuss their career interests, research projects, and facts about the animals. For grades 5-8. 2004By Jacqueline Davies, Melissa Sweet. 2004
Recounts how passionately the young Frenchman who made his home in America loved birds. Describes the numerous drawings and paintings…
he made of birds, their nests, and eggs and reveals the way he determined whether migrating birds return to the same place in the spring. For grades 2-4. 2004By Paul Hoffman. 2003
Author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (RC 48056) examines the life and work of Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), the…
Brazilian-born aeronautical pioneer whose dirigibles captivated Paris. Hoffman highlights Santos-Dumont's aerial accomplishments, role in the race for manned flight, and despair at the destructive power of militarized aircraft during World War I. 2003By Washington Irving, Charles Neider. 1998
Sixty-one short stories by the prolific New Yorker Washington Irving (1783-1859), best known for "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend…
of Sleepy Hollow." The volume contains satires, ghost stories, and fables, many of them set in New York City and the Hudson Valley in the early days of Dutch settlement. Introduction by Charles Neider. 1975By Floyd C Moore, Floyd C. Moore, Donna K. Nelson. 1995
It's a very special day for Floyd when the train carrying William Taft, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison pulls into…
Iron City. Floyd's class goes to greet the important men, and he gets a great spot in the crowd. He is so excited he can barely talk when Thomas Edison speaks to him! Floyd gets a chance to do something nice for Edison, an incident that Floyd remembers for the rest of his life. For grades 2-4By Richard Polenberg. 1987
A history professor examines the case of five anarchists charged with distributing leaflets opposing U.S. intervention in Russia after World…
War I. He details the superheated atmosphere of patriotism in the country at that time, and the unfair trial the five received after being beaten and coerced to confess. Polenberg also analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court and its decision in the caseBy Thea Stilton. 2014
The Thea Sisters are thrilled about the new performing arts program being offered at Mouseford Academy. That is, until they…
meet the head of the department--the demanding and strict Professor Ratyshnikov. The mouselets will have to audition just to get into her class! For grades 2-4By Robin S. Sharma, Robin S Sharma. 1998
Escrito a modo de fabula, este libro contiene una serie de sencillas y eficaces lecciones para mejorar nuestra manera de…
vivir. Vigorosa fusion de la sabiduria espiritual de Oriente con los principios del exito occidentales, muestra paso a paso como vivir con mas coraje, alegria, equilibrio y satisfaccionBy Barbara Lowell, Antonio Marinoni. 2020