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
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILMullins, 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
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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
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: BOARD SPISummary: Each tube is designed to showcase a different aspect of motion.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeshore 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIShame (Musical group: London (England))
Contents: Dust on trial -- Concrete -- One Rizla -- The lick -- Tasteless -- Donk -- Gold hole -- Friction -- Lampoon -- Angie.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHAGray, Susan Heinrichs.
Summary: Learn how forces such as inertia and friction relate to motion and how humans have used the laws of motion to invent such things as roller coasters and space shuttles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.11 GRABodden, Valerie.
Summary: "An elementary introduction to the physics involved in the sport of soccer, including scientific concepts such as spin and friction, and actions such as dribbling and kicking"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Jenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical basic fraction concepts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 MIDSummary: Frances Fraction, Newman Numerator, and Dennis Denominator invite kids on a colorful adventure to explore fractions and decimals. Entertaining music, easy-to-follow examples, and plenty of humor make even difficult concepts easy to grasp. Delayed answers give learners time to respond and check their understanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rock 'N Learn 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ROCAlcott, Kathleen.
Summary: Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCSummary: Follows the adventures of six-year-old best friends, Sally and Nick, as they are whisked off on extraordinary voyages of scientific discovery with the Cat in the Hat. Thanks to the Thinga-ma-jigger and our friends, exploring has never been more exciting!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD CATGifford, Scott
Summary: Explains how in the language of mathematics, fractions, decimals and percents are three different ways of describing the same parts of things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 GIFAdler, David A.
Summary: Come to the county fair, where you'll see fractions, decimals, and percents everywhere. Gobble up a fraction of pie, boast your batting average in the arcade, and take a percent off the price of a toy. Learning about equivalent parts equals a whole lot of fun in this accessible introduction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 ADLCaron, Lucille.
Summary: A guide to unraveling the mysteries of decimals and fractions, whether you are learning them for the first time or brushing up on your skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 CARViva, Frank
Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVSummary: In this two-section program licensed massage therapist Richard Sager presents a step-by-step tutorial on how to give a Swedish massage. Demonstrating on a draped male client, he begins by clearly explaining four styles of strokes: effleurage (sliding), petrissage (kneading), friction (cross fiber), and tapotement (rhythmic tapping). Sager also advises on draping methods, on ways to rest the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Montague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONRyan, Pam Muñoz.
Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003
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Summary: After finding themselves mysteriously transported to a magical island, this time in a rainforest swamp, Daniel, Joy, and Kimani must figure out how to safely traverse across the island with their knowledge of friction and pulleys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: West Margin Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ESTMcMillan, Bruce.
Summary: Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992