Summary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILPunter, Russell
Summary: "Kitty Kat is off the the capital of the U.S.A. Tag along as he checks out all the famous sites, from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial. Cruise the Potomac, browse in the world's biggest library and discover American history in this modern version of the classic rhyme."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUNPovletich, William
Summary: "Some Like It Cold chronicles the true story of twin brothers Lee and Larry Williams, whose love of surfing evolved in the most unlikely of geographies: off the shores of Lake Michigan. From their boyhood home in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the brothers trekked to the local beach with their longboards and their dreams to master the waves at spots like the Elbow and the Cove. The next six decades...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 POVAnderson, Steven C.
Summary: This classic song gets an updated, original recording paired with a delightful picture book. The combination of paired music and text helps engage students and develop early literacy skills. -- Amazon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J BLUE WHESmith, Craig R.
Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Edsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSWellons, Jay
Summary: "Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLONS, JAY WELColby, Rebecca
Summary: A collection of nursery rhymes with vehicular themes, such as Tow, tow, tow the car and Twinkle, twinkle, UFO.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLAtkinson,Deborah Turrell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATKSummary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Willems, Mo.
Summary: Her daddy in tow, Trixie hurries to school to show off her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny. But an awful surprise awaits her: someone else has the exact same bunny!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WilCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WILSummary: Ramon Navarro, a third-generation subsistence fisherman and farmer who lives on the coast of Chile at Punta Lobos, learned to surf on a busted surfboard left by a visiting surfer. Since then he has become one of the top-ten big wave riders. He has used his surfing accomplishments to protect his home break, and he is admired around the world as an environmental activist: he fights resort...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797 NAVMullins, Matt.
Summary: Photographs and text introduce scientific concepts related to friction, explaining what friction is and what it affects, describing how people have used friction throughout human history, and providing additional facts, statistics, and a time line.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.1134 MULSpiro, Ruth
Summary: "Baby discovers the science behind spinning a dreidel on Hanukkah, exploring angular momentum, torque, friction, and gravity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Thomas, Vivien T.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 THOMoorhouse, Roger
Summary: "In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MOOHabnit, Eleonora.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.477 HABNargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone Imprint 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.089 NARKarl, Richard C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 KARRutkow, Ira M.
Summary: "From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development-spanning the Stone Age to the present day-blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 617 RUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 RUTPunter, Russell
Summary: This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home... Find out what all five little piggies get up to in this retelling of the classic rhyme.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PUNWittner, Laura
Summary: Celebrates the comfort and confidence a mother's voice brings to her child.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD WITPinkney, Jerry.
Summary: Presents the classic tale of three youngsters who are careless with their mittens, but who turn out to be good little kittens after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Fiction Pinkney 2010Franklin, Ruth.
Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011