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Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Fiction Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Computers Computers Juvenile literature Detective and mystery stories Presidents United States Biography Juvenile literature Psychotropic drugs Psychotropic plants Solar system United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Juvenile literatureHargrove, Jim.
Summary: Recounts the life of the general who led Allied troops to victory in World War II and became thirty-fourth president of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1987
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB EISENHOWE HARClinton, Susan.
Summary: Recounts the story of America's fourth president, known as the Father of the Constitution, describing his early life in Virginia and his many years of service in public office.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MADISON CLISobol, Donald J.
Summary: A collection of ten short mysteries starring Idaville's most famous ten-year-old sleuth, Encyclopedia Brown, allow readers to join in and solve the crimes themselves
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBMarcovitz, Hal.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KEN MARSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville's ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1988
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSummary: This program covers both scientific and utility satellites. Geostationary utility satellites include communication, meteorological, and broadcasting satellites; the science satellites cover an almost limitless range, from Explorer 1's discovery of the Van Allen Belt in 1958, to the discovery of solar wind and the gradual solution to the mystery of the polar auroras; Landsat, the Earth...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSullivan, Anne Marie.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROO SULKnox, Jean McBee.
Summary: Explores the history of man's use of drugs that alter consciousness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 SONSaffer, Barbara.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-third president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TRU SAFMarcovitz, Hal.
Summary: A biography of the forty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and youth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLI MARSobol, Donald J.
Summary: The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBTwain, Mark
Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainHakim, Joy.
Summary: Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and explains the history and requirements of Project Mercury-the first manned orbital flight by the U.S. It covers training for high gravity and weightlessness; the development of a life-support system for space and a spaceship; the response to the flight of Yuri Gagarin; the first American manned space flight-Alan Shepard's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Since the time of Icarus, man has tried to fly. This program covers the history of flight, from the invention of the propeller through the Wright Brothers' first flight and Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic solo; profiles Robert Goddard and traces the development of the rocket from the beginning, through the development of gyroscopic instruments, the V-2, Sputnik, and Explorer 1; traces the advances...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Check, William A.
Summary: Discusses the forms of child abuse, its historical and cultural context, and society's methods of dealing with it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 CHEFeinberg, Barbara Silberdick.
Summary: Presents a biography of the wife of the thirty-third president of the United States, a woman who preferred the privacy of family life to the public role of First Lady.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TRUMAN FEIRichardson, P. Mick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1986
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Summary: Describes the characteristics and effects of various drugs derived from plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1988
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Summary: The solutions to 10 mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the 10-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008