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Giants of scienceBanks, Kate
Summary: A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BANBanks, Kate
Summary: When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BANFern, Tracey E.
Summary: Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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Summary: A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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Summary: Many unusual and unexpected things happen while Max plays with his invisible dragon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Summary: Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOWHorvath, Polly
Summary: Ernest's parents are worried because he never really smiles, but Ernest assures them that he is happy--he is just not the kind of guy who smiles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HORBest, Cari
Summary: A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESBryant, Jennifer.
Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRAFleming, Candace.
Summary: In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLEKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006