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Discoveries in geography Fiction Explorers Fiction Friendship Fiction Geography Fiction Geography Juvenile fiction Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Fiction Nuclear fission Juvenile literature Physicists Germany Biography Juvenile literature Siblings Juvenile fiction Women physicists Germany Biography Juvenile literatureGutman, Dan
Summary: "After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide"--Provided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTHickey, Caroline
Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICThom, James Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOJackson, Ellen B.
Summary: During a geography lesson, a child takes an imaginary journey to each of the seven seas, including the Brown Sea which is made of chocolate, and the Pink Sea which has flamingos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JACTinker, Rebecca
Summary: "For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting thief? In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series, Carmen shares her own backstory for the firsttime ever. Now, it's time to find out.... Who in the world is Carmen Sandiego"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: George Drouillard accompanies Lewis and Clark as they explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOBuechner, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUEDahm, Evan
Summary: "Once, everyone called Sola 'cursed.' Now they call her hero. But why doesn't she feel like one? After their quest to find the Monster, Sola and her friends have gone down separate paths. Sola spends her days on the open seas while Hunder stays close to home as the chief of the unified Sun and Fortress Islands. And Wick? Well . . . it's almost as if he's become a ghost. Then their world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUHolland, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSís, Peter
Summary: Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sis 2000Vernon, John
Summary: Blending fact and fiction, presents the story of John Wesley Powell's 1869 voyage of exploration from the Green River in Wyoming Territory to the canyons of the Colorado River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERShulevitz, Uri
Summary: As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Shulevitz 2008Schuett, Stacey.
Summary: Describes what is happening in different places around the world at a particular time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHYolen, Jane
Summary: "Under Grandpa's watchful eye, the kids are thrilled to discover that the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and windswept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Are the children the first to fathom this huge secret, or does Grandpa have a secret of his own?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOLKing, Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 KINSummary: "Children will enjoy hours of fun as they search for a variety of people, animals, objects, and flags across the world. Each of the seven continents is represented by a country and shows where it is located on a globe, along with the country's flag"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidsBooks, LLC 2017
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Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEIJenoff, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIMoss, Marissa
Summary: "As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022