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The ultimate balloon book: 46 projects to blow up, bend & twist
By Shar Levine, Michael Ouchi, Jeff Connery, Jackie Aher, Mo Moussa. 2000
This how-to guide offers practical advice on supplies needed, techniques, and safety tips. Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a full…
range of designs from beginner to advanced levels. Projects include balloon animals, hats, airplanes, plants, bracelets, decorations, and games. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2001Dinosaur parents, dinosaur young: uncovering the mystery of dinosaur families
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Paul Carrick, Bruce Shillinglaw. 2001
Explains how scientists form theories about the way dinosaur parents behaved with their hatchlings. Tells how new fossil discoveries lead…
to identifying new species that may cause scientists to change their ideas about dinosaur family life. For grades 3-6. 2001Winning chess: tactics & strategies
By Ted Nottingham, Al Lawrence, Bob Wade. 1999
Presents tactics and techniques for playing this ancient board game. Discusses openings, middlegame and endgame strategies, forks, pins, skewers, and…
examples from the games of world champions. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1999Fossil fish found alive: discovering the coelacanth (Nonfiction - Grades 4-8)
By Sally M Walker, Sally M. Walker. 2002
Describes scientists' excitement when a specimen of fish thought to be extinct was discovered in a trawler's catch off the…
South African coast in 1938. Discusses subsequent searches for the elusive deep-water coelacanth and what has been learned about it through scientific research. For grades 5-8. 2002Meteorite!: the last days of the dinosaurs (A Turnstone ocean explorer book)
By Richard Norris. 2000
A scientist uncovers evidence that a significant meteorite plunged to Earth in prehistoric times. It had a huge impact on…
fauna and flora and may have caused mass extinction of animal life--including the dinosaurs. For grades 5-8. 2000Do bees sneeze?: and other questions kids ask about insects
By James K Wangberg, James K. Wangberg, Ellen Parker. 1997
An entomologist answers 210 questions about insects asked by school children. The queries cover topics such as abundance and existence,…
body parts and functions, homes and habitats, food for insects and insects as food, and health and safety. Sections on supervised projects are included. For grades 4-7Profiles eight pioneers in the study of dinosaurs and explains how scientific knowledge is cumulative. Clinton notes that dinosaurs were…
unknown until 1824 when Georges Cuvier identified the first dinosaur bone, describing it as belonging to a whale-sized lizard. Now three hundred kinds of dinosaurs are known to vertebrate paleontologists. For junior and senior high readersNavajo code talkers
By Nathan Aaseng. 1992
During World War II, nearly 4,000 Navajo Indians answered the call to serve in the U.S. military, despite the legacy…
of Native American genocide. Perhaps their most important contribution to the war effort was the development and use of a special code by a select corps of marines known as the code talkers. The unbreakable communications code was based on the Navajo language, and proved invaluable in the Pacific theater. For grades 6-9 and older readersAs I am: an autobiography
By Martin Gardner, Patricia Neal. 1988
At twenty-one the self-confident, determined, Southern-bred actress starred in a Broadway hit, won a Tony, and became "the toast of…
New York." In this account written "to reclaim the past that was stolen," Neal writes candidly about her numerous love affairs, both transient and profound, such as a liaison with Gary Cooper and her long marriage to writer Roald Dahl. She tells of the deaths of two of her five children and of her massive stroke at age thirty-nine. Some strong languageWaiting games
By Carole Hart, Bruce Hart. 1981
Fourteen-year-old Jessie is very much in love with Michael, her guitar teacher. She's also afraid that she may be pregnant.…
Sequel to 'Sooner or Later.' For junior and senior high readersMagic ... naturally!: Science entertainments & amusements
By Vicki Cobb, Lance R. Miyamoto. 1976
Who was harry houdini? (Who Was?)
By Tui Sutherland. 2019
Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks.…
But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about!Prehistoric: Dinosaurs, Megalodons, and Other Fascinating Creatures of the Deep Past
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Julius Csotonyi. 2019
A look at the history of life on Earth starts in the present and goes back hundreds of millions of…
years to the Ediacaran Period, profiling the creatures that existed at each time. For grades 2-4. 2019Mammoths on the move
By Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3Top secret: a handbook of codes, ciphers, and secret writing
By Paul B. Janeczko, Jenna LaReau. 2004
Monsters & creatures: a young adventurer's guide : Dungeons and Dragons (Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurer's Guides)
By Andrew Wheeler, Jim Zub, Stacy King, Official Dungeons & Dragons Licensed, Official Dungeons & Dragons Licensed. 2019
Guide to the creatures role-players encounter in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Grouped by locations, each beast profile includes…
a description of their traits, lair, special powers, and level of danger. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2019Real-life situations at home, play, or outdoors that require math to solve. In "A Measured Response" two boys without a…
measuring container substitute a soda can and a water bottle. In "A Slice of Life" the challenge is dividing pizza. For grades 4-7. 2010Danger in the desert: true adventures of a dinosaur hunter (Sterling Point Bks.)
By Roger Cohen. 2008
Traces the life and career of American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960), whose 1922 expedition discovered an enormous dinosaur fossil…
trove in the Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Recounts Andrews's death-defying escapes from dangerous animals, terrain, and people while on the pursuit of scientific artifacts. For grades 6-9. 2008Phenomena: secrets of the senses
By Donna M Jackson. 2008
Explores the connections between our senses and perception and many unexplained phenomena, such as intuition, synethesia, and the sixth sense.…
Discusses paranormal experiences, animal super senses, and a technology called vOICe that converts video images into complex sounds to help visually impaired people. For grades 5-8. 2008Whodunit?: detective stories
By Philip Pullman. 2007
Sixteen stories of crimes ranging from cold-blooded murder to dognapping, in settings that include an Egyptian tomb, a sinister English…
country house, and New York City streets. In "Butch Minds the Baby" by Damon Runyon, a safecracker takes his infant son along on a job. For grades 6-9. 1998