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A Seed Grows
by Antoinette Portis
Including a bright fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material explaining the life cycle of plants, this transformative story offers a close-up view of each step of the process as a seed becomes a sunflower.
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A lyrical picture book introduction to the life and achievements of the influential Jewish artist and activist touches on Ben Shahn’s remarkable skills of observation, his witness to his protester father’s banishment and his commitment to promoting justice through art. |
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Honeybee : The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
by Candace Fleming
Describes the life of a typical worker bee, as she emerges from her cell, does different jobs around the hive while growing big enough and strong enough to fly, and flies far and wide to search for nectar.
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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Kevin Noble Maillard
This tale celebrates the Native American tradition of sharing fry bread during family meals in a story about family, history, culture, and traditions, both new and old.
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride, 1961
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Larry Dane Brimner
Documents the heroic 1961 campaign of the civil rights activists known as the "Freedom Riders," describing their peaceful protests to raise awareness about unconstitutional segregation and the increasing violence they endured as they traveled south.
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March: Book Three
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John Lewis
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
*This title can be found in the Adult Graphic Novel (GN) section of the library.
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The Right Word : Roget and His Thesaurus
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Jen Bryant
Examines the life of Peter Mark Roget and his invention of the thesaurus.
*This book can be found in the Easy Non-Fiction section of the library.
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Parrots over Puerto Rico
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Susan L Roth
Presents a history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, discussing the efforts being made to protect and manage the parrot which is an endangered species.
*This book can be found in the Easy Non-Fiction section of the library.
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Bomb : The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve SheinkinA dramatic introduction to the international competition to create the first atomic bomb recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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*This book can be found in the Easy Non-Fiction section of the library. |
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Kakapo Rescue : Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
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Sy Montgomery
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population
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Almost Astronauts : 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
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Tanya Lee Stone
Provides the story of the thirteen women connected with NASA's Mercury 13 space mission, who braved prejudice and jealousy to make their mark and open the door for the female pilots and space commanders that would soon follow.
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We are the Ship : The Story of Negro League Baseball
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Kadir Nelson
Rich illustrations capture the excitement and thrills of the glory years of Negro League baseball in the early 1900s, profiling its star athletes, highlighting the challenges faced by the players, and the sacrifices made to live out their dreams and play the game they loved.
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The Wall : Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain
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Peter SÃs
Annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes take readers on an extraordinary journey of how the artist-author's life was shaped while growing up in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, as well as the influence of western culture through the influx of banned books, music, and news, in a powerful graphic memoir.
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Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
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Catherine Thimmesh
From the engineers to the suit testers, the story of the many people in various professions who worked behind-the-scenes to get Apollo 11 on the moon and safely back is presented through quotes, transcripts, national archives, and full-color NASA photos.
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An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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Jim Murphy
Accompanied by black-and-white archival photos and drawn from first-hand accounts, a compelling true story vividly recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as 18th-century medical beliefs and practices.
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