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By Larry Brimner. 1998
Provides basic facts about the planet closest to the sun. Discusses the Mariner 10 space probe, which sent back much…
more information than was previously known about Mercury. For grades 3-6By Meredith Hughes. 2001
Examines one of the oldest, most portable foods on earth, the nut. Discusses the history, growing requirements, and food value…
of pecans, walnuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, macadamias, and other species grown around the world. Includes a recipe featuring each of these six nuts. For grades 4-7. 2001By Elaine Scott. 1998
Explains how information transmitted by the repaired Hubble telescope enables scientists to study stars, planets, black holes, and galaxies. Describes…
the impact of this new technology on astronomers' ideas about how the universe was formed. For grades 4-7By Carolyn Keene. 2002
Nancy Drew and her girlfriends Bess and George travel to Ireland for a bike tour that includes teens from other…
countries. Once there they realize that the group is in danger from an unknown assailant. For grades 4-7. 2002By Philip Pullman. 1998
Long ago in a German tavern, Fritz begins telling a story about a clockmaker. This master craftsman makes mechanical figures…
so lifelike, they appear to breathe. Then Fritz's story comes to life as the clockmaker enters the tavern. And Karl, an apprentice clockmaker, is desperate enough to accept this stranger's dangerous mechanical gift. For grades 5-8By Carolyn Keene. 1931
By Nancy Antle. 2000
On Christmas Eve, Sam and the members of his Wild West Show help a trainful of people who were robbed.…
Sam and Rodeo Rosie follow the robbers' trail and find that outlaws Flo and Bo have captured a "very unmerry-looking gentleman in a red suit." For grades K-3. 2000By Shel Silverstein. 1981
A fat collection of poems that range from exhilarating nonsense to tender sadness. Includes "How Not to Have to Dry…
the Dishes," "Prayer of the Selfish Child," "Adventures of a Frisbee," and "Hiccup Cure." For grades 4-7 to share with younger children and adultsBy Jon Scieszka. 1998
Eighteen modern fables with fresh morals about bossy, sneaky, funny, annoying, "dim-bulb" people--all disguised as animals to avoid hurting anyone's…
feelings. Topics include homework, using the telephone on the right occasion, friendship, and dinner-table talk. For grades 3-6By Will Steger. 1997
Recounts Steger's 1995 trip over the North Pole by dogsled and canoe. Steger's journey begins in Siberia with six teammates,…
thirty-three dogs, and two tons of gear. His journal entries detail daily events, weather conditions, setbacks, dog problems, and human difficulties in successfully mounting the expedition. Grades 4-7By Don Lessem. 1999
A chronological overview of extinct life forms, progressing from one-celled sea creatures and prehistoric dinosaurs to twentieth-century mammals and birds.…
Provides scientific and popular names, physical characteristics, and places of origin. Discusses the eras, periods, and epochs of mass extinctions. For grades 4-7. 1999By Liza Ketchum, C. B. Mordan. 2000
In 1828, the Damron's family farm fails in Illinois, so they trek back to Kentucky. After a short time, both…
parents die from "milk sickness", and orphaned Jesse and her siblings must make their way back to their grandmother. For grades 3-6By Joanna Cole. 1989
Eddie, the neighborhood bully, picks on best friends Arlo and Robby, stealing their food whenever he can. But Arlo and…
Robby come up with a red-hot plan to make him stop. For grades K-3. Bestseller. 1989By Elin Kelsey. 2000
Uses a question and answer format to discuss dinosaur topics such as fossilized bones, birth from eggs, "poop," growth, and…
travel. Provides profiles for dinosaurs in general, and for species (family groups): hadrosaur (duckbill), tyrannosaur (tyrant lizard), ceratopsian (horned), and coelurosaur (hollow-tailed). For grades 4-7. 2000By Evelyn Coleman. 1998
Traces the youth of Oseola McCarty, an African American woman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; her career as a laundress; and her…
rise to fame in 1995. Then age eighty-seven, she donated $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students. For grades 3-6. 1998Introduces forty poets with informal statements about their relationships with written or spoken words when they were young; also presents…
at least one work by each. Includes Marvin Bell, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Kumin, Li-Young Lee, Gerald Stern, Alice Walker, and Robley Wilson. For grades 6-9 and older readersBy Heather Henson. 1999
Laura's father continues his quest for the ideal place to live and builds a new log house on the Kansas…
prairie. In "Digging a Well," Pa saves the life of Mr. Scott, who fainted in the bottom of the unfinished well. For grades 2-4. 1999By Ann Martin. 1998
Baby-Sitters Club member Stacey McGill takes a sitting job with a new client, Mr. John Brooke. Mr. Brooke is divorced,…
and Stacey decides he might make a perfect match for her divorced mother. But Mr. Brooke's two children have different ideas. Stacey soon finds herself in a matchmaking mess. For grades 3-6By Carolyn Keene. 2001
By Malcolm Penny. 1997
Basic introduction to the growth and development of plants. Describes how flowers, fruits, and parachutes help disperse seeds over great…
distances. Includes information on plants that are parasites, insect-eaters, or other unusual specimens. For grades 3-6