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Locomotive
by Brian Floca
This book presents a visual exploration of America's early railroads, examining the sounds, speed, and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers. Call Number: J 385 FLO
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That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen
by Bruce Goldstone
Combines colorful photographs and interactive examples in an introduction to the science and math of probability that provides comprehensive explanations about games of chance and various easy-to-understand scenarios. Call Number: J 519.2 GOL
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Pluto's Secret: An Icy World's Tale of Discovery
by Margaret A. Weitekamp and David H. DeVorkin
Combines whimsical artwork and an engaging dialogue format to explain why Pluto's status as a planet was changed, tracing its history from discovery to recent reclassification while explaining how scientists are now organizing and classifying objects in our solar system. Call Number: J 523.4922 WEI
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Things That Float and Things That Don't
by David A. Adler
An apple floats in a tub of water, but a ball of aluminum foil sinks to the bottom. But wait. If that same ball of foil is flattened out and shaped into a boat, it floats! How can that be? David A. Adler's clear, concise text and Anna Raff's delightful illustrations explain the basic principles of flotation and density in a way that will really sink in. Call Number: J 532.25 ADL
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Rotten Pumpkin: [A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices]
by David M. Schwartz
After a jack-o-lantern's night in the spotlight, it gets discarded in the garden, where different animals, bugs, fungi, worms, slime molds, and microbes feed off of it and break it down into the soil, where its nutrients help a pumpkin seed grow. Call Number: J 577.1 SCH
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My First Day
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
The Caldecott Honor-winning creators of "What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?" combine sparse text and illuminating cut-paper illustrations to explore the first 24 hours of life for 22 species of animals, from the emperor penguin to the Siberian tiger. Call Number: J 591.392 JEN
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Frog Song
by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Presents a sumptuously illustrated tribute to the crucial role frogs play in ecosystems around the world, using fact-filled, onomatopoeic text to describe how numerous varieties of frogs have helped the environment since prehistoric times. Call Number: J 597.891 GUI
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A Little Book of Sloth
by Lucy Cooke
From a British filmmaker and sloth expert comes a hilarious, heartwarming photographic picture book starring the laziest--and one of the cutest--animals on the planet. Call Number: J 599.313 COO
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See What a Seal Can Do
by Christine Butterworth
A lyrical portrait of seal characteristics and life explains how seals appear to be slow and sleepy creatures on land but are powerful, graceful and dynamic animals under the water who cleverly outmaneuver predators and skillfully catch fishy dinners. Call Number: J 599.79 BUT
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Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball
by David A. Kelly
Traces the invention of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud by longtime baseball fan, player and coach Russell Aubrey "Lena" Blackburne, describing how his distaste for the methods used by players to break in baseballs prompted his creation and how, for more than 75 years, teams have been using the Hall of Fame-noted product to prepare baseballs before every game. Call Number: J 921 BLA
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Flying Solo: How Ruth Elder Soared into America's Heart
by Julie Cummins
An introduction to the life and barrier-breaking achievements of the lesser-known aviatrix traces her beliefs about the equal capabilities of women, her efforts to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and her high-profile rescue at sea. Call Number: J 921 ELD
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Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library
by Barb Rosenstock
A lyrical, illustrated account of how the third American president helped create the world's largest library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., shares excerpts from primary source documents that include Jefferson's thoughts on books, reading and learning. Call Number: J 973.46092 ROS
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The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis B. Fradin
Documents the efforts of a mid-19th century Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the heroic showdown that put several lives at risk. Call Number: J 973.7115 FRA
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Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond
by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Documents the contributions of specially trained military dogs, profiling noteworthy canine heroes while providing accessible coverage of such topics as how they are trained and what happens to them when they retire. Call Number: J 355.424 PAT
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Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
by Elizabeth Rusch
Recounting the harrowing 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano that claimed 23,000 lives, an account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart and John Pallister and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose constant threats to more than one billion people worldwide. Series: Scientists in the Field Call Number: J 363.3495 RUS
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Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
by Rebecca L. Johnson
Examines creatures that can take over the bodies and brains of other creatures and turn them into slaves, from a fly-enslaving fungus to a cockroach-taming wasp. Call Number: J 578.65 JOH
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The Dolphins of Shark Bay
by Pamela S. Turner
A scientific journey to study the dolphins of coastal Australia considers the many potential sources of dolphin intelligence and what dolphin behavior can inform the scientific community about human intelligence, captive animals and the future of the oceans. Call Number: J 599.533 TUR
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The Polar Bear Scientists
by Peter Lourie
Documents the annual efforts of a pair of biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey team to locate and tranquilize polar bears in the Alaskan wilderness to collect important information about species conservation and global warming. Series: Scientists in the Field Call Number: J 599.786 LOU
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The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure
by Allison Lassieur
Take part in the race between the United States and Soviet Union to be the first to reach the moon. Everything in this book happened to real people and the reader chooses what to do next. Series: You Choose Books Call Number: J 629.454 LAS
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Tiger in Trouble!: And More True Stories of Amazing Animal Rescues
by Kelly Milner Halls
A series created for kids who are aging out of early readers is written in simple prose, with each chapter book featuring full-color illustrations and plot-driven true stories filled with humor and high adventure. Series: National Geographic Kids Chapters Call Number: J 639.9 HAL
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Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
by Russell Freedman
An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist. Call Number: J 921 FRA
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Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man
by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis B. Fradin
Follows the remarkable story of Solomon Northup--a free black man who was kidnapped and forced into slavery--through his 12 years of bondage in Louisiana until friends from New York rescued him from a cotton plantation. (Also available in Adult Nonfiction: 306.362092 NOR) Call Number: J 921 NOR
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