September 2018 list by K. Pearson
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1001+ Fantastic Facts About Animals
by Claire Hibbert
Provides over one thousand facts about animals, including such topics as animal bodies, habitats, locomotion, communication, and babies.
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Car Record Breakers
by Paul Virr
The world's fastest race cars. Extreme autos. Cutting-edge hypercars. Kids can't get enough motor action, and this great nonfiction book is crammed with facts, stats, and full-page images of the most amazing automobiles on Earth—and beyond.
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Cave Crystals Kitchen Experiment
by Meg Gaertner
Step-by-step instructions to create cave crystals right in their kitchen. Readers are introduced to basic science concepts such as saturation, solutions, and atoms.
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Chloe Kim
by Grace Hansen
Kids will be delighted to learn all about this amazing athlete's achievements. This title will cover Chloe Kim's early years, how she got her start snowboarding, and how she earned her Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe event.
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The Dalai Lama: With a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
by Demi
When the thirteenth Dalai Lama died in 1933, the highest holy men in Tibet searched throughout the land for his successor. They were spiritually guided to the humble dwelling of a loving family high in the Himalayas. When the search party greeted the youngest son, the child told them, "Now I am going home!" At last the fourteenth Dalai Lama had been found, and at the age of two, the young boy was taken to the capital city, Lhasa, where he began his training to become the spiritual leader of Tibet.
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D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History
by Deborah Hopkinson
The award-winning author of Shutting Out the Sky presents a comprehensive introduction to D-Day that explains its reasons, goals and years of secret planning while discussing the important roles played by key contributors.
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Endangered Animals
by Anita Ganeri
Thousands of animal species all around the world go extinct or are at risk of dying out every year. This enlightening book offers insight on what can be done to help combat some of the dangers that these animals face.
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How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: a Dena'ina Fable
by Barbara J. Atwater
Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way.
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Mandarin Chinese Picture Dictionary: Learn 1,500 Key Chinese Words and Phrases
by Yi Ren
Each word and sentence is given in Chinese characters with a Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation and English definition. The words are grouped into 38 themes or topics. Each theme has 25 to 35 words and 5 to 8 sentences and is richly illustrated with color photographs. Online audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers of all the vocabulary and sentences comes free with the book.
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The Orca Scientists
by Kim Perez Valice
Follow the scientists working in the Pacific Northwest to learn about the orca whale population there, as they race to save these remarkable mammals from extinction.
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Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement
by Stephanie Roth Sisson
As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental movement.
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Up and Away!: How Two Brothers Invented the Hot-Air Balloon
by Jason Henry
A beautifully illustrated picture book relates the true story of Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier’s 18th-century invention of the hot-air balloon, more than a century before the Wright Brothers invented their plane, and how three animals--a rooster, a duck and a sheep--where the first passengers to ride in the balloon’s basket.
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Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?
by Sherri L Smith
During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama.
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