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Summary: Describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of international airship flight and the events leading to the disaster, and explains what measures have been taken to make airship travel safer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 BENDeAngelis, Gina.
Summary: Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Pub. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1246 DEAGriffith, Victoria.
Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GRIBrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROReynoso, Naibe
Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYCall number: J SPANISH 920 REY
Pascal, Janet B.
Summary: At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone, people jumping from windows to escape. However, only 62 of the 97 crew members and passengers onboard...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 387.7 PASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What PascalRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLCooke, Tim
Summary: "Reporters gathered in the rain to watch in awe as the Hindenburg was scheduled to touch down on May 6, 1937. Their awe quickly turned to horror as the airship burst into flames and plunged to the ground. Follow along with the true story of a doomed airship that changed the course of aviation. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2023