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21) The Comic Book Story of Video Games : The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First printing.
Physical Desc
185 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a few glowing pixels, an electronic display, and a joystick, a "d-pad," or even just the touch screen of your smartphone, you can immerse yourself in other worlds and make all the right moves to level up or blunder into a death trap where it's instantly "Game Over." How did we get from primitive yet compelling games like Pong to the reality-hijacking Pokemon Go app, which sent people all over the globe stumbling around their neighborhoods in...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With his unique blend of informative text and illustration, master explainer David Macaulay explores one of the body's most amazing organs. How does the eye collect and focus light? How does the brain interrupt signals from our eyes so we recognize the things around us? It's a remarkable process that we never have to think about--we just have to keep our eyes open!
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Way, way up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, a man lives alone in the wilderness. He watches and measures the snowfall, filling notebooks with observations of the natural world, marking the changes that happen around him.
He has lived here fifty-one years.
And there have been many changes...
24) The Wild River and the Great Dam : The Construction of Hoover Dam and the Vanishing Colorado River
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
242 pages : photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the time of its completion in 1936, Hoover Dam was the biggest dam in the world and the largest feat of architecture and engineering in the country--a statement of national ambition and technical achievement. It turned the wild Colorado River into a tame and securely managed water source, transforming millions of acres of desert into farmland while also providing water and to the fast-growing population of the Southwest. The concrete monolith quickly...
Author
Publisher
Kindle Direct
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
unpaged ; color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, Axel was nervous going back to school unsure of how his friends would react. Listening to his mother's advice, Axel decides instead of being scared, he would teach his friends about Type 1 Diabetes. Follow along on this journey with Axel and his friends to learn more about T1D in an easily digestible manner suitable for children. T1D kids will feel represented seeing a main character proudly wearing their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explains some of the challenges and rewards of having a friend with ADHD using everyday kid-friendly examples."--Publisher provided.
Author
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after...
28) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Are you drawn to the arts? Are you more suited to a studio than an office? There are plenty of careers that allow you to do what you love and love what you do. Discover different paths that allow you to stay creative with a career in the studio!--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Do you want to be an adventure guide, a surveyor, or a wildlife firefighter? Learn about different career paths that spend their times outdoors and in nature"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s a migrant farmer named Maria Ann Smith worked as an apple orchardist. Her discovery of a new type of apple that never turned red, but was always green, tart, sweet, and perfect for a pie, was due in part to a fluke of nature, and in part to Maria's insight and determination. The beloved Granny Smith apple that we know today was named in her honor. This is her story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism in twenty [lessons]. This book is written so young people will feel empowered to stand up to the adults in their lives. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it"--Provided by publisher.
33) Disgusting Jobs
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidocope Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Clock in and hold your nose! In this title, readers will get a close-up look at all sorts of disgusting jobs through vivid images, infographics, sidebars, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you want to be a nurse, therapist, or mortician when you grow up? Learn about different career paths that are designed to help people.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
xviii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
Author
Series
Publisher
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage and Main Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
10th Anniversary Edition.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this story of strength, family, and culture shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross.
Abandoned as a young child, Betsy is adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, everything changes. Betsy is taken away to a residential school. There she is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that give her the resilience, strength, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Puberty is pretty gross for pretty much everyone. It's a smelly, hairy, sticky, and (worst of all) totally confusing time! But did you know there's a lot about puberty that makes it really awesome?
Get the whole picture with this honest, humorous, and empowering survival guide to the tween years. It's packed with straightforward illustrations, easy-to-understand scientific information, interesting studies, and tips from experts, covering everything...
Author
Series
Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
Description
Of all the questions astronauts are asked by kids, the most frequent one is "How do you go to the toilet in space?" This book not only answers that question, but many others about the effect of zero gravity on the human body: How do you brush your hair in space? What happens when you sweat? What does food taste like? The best thing is that the answers are provided by Dr. Dave Williams, a NASA astronaut who speaks from first-hand experience.
Author
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zoos are busy places filled with animals and the visitors who love them. Who are the people who keep zoos running? From vets to performers to groundskeepers, many people work together to serve the needs of a zoo. Learn about their important work"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of millions of years before humans had evolved, our planet was already teeming with life. In prehistoric oceans, stony deserts, warm swamps and vast grasslands, there lived an incredible variety of plants and animals. Invertebrates made up a huge number of Earth's life forms. Among them, giant sea scorpions as big as a lion terrorised the oceans, enormous millipedes fed on plants in dense Carboniferous forests and tiny wasps preyed on cockroach...