Roy, Katherine
Summary: "From fish to mammals and plants to insects, every organism on Earth must reproduce, and the survival of each species--and of life itself--depends on this and on the diversity it creates. In this groundbreaking book, Katherine Roy distills the science of reproduction into its simplest components: organisms must meet, merge their DNA, and grow new individuals; and she thoughtfully highlights the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family groups on earth.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Macaulay Studio, Roaring Brook Press 2017
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Summary: "An up close look at the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them--just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 ROYHo, Richard
Summary: Describes the important jobs the rover Curiosity conducts on the inhospitable surface of Mars, from looking for water to sending back information to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOTaylor, S. S.
Summary: Kit, Zander, and M. K. West are settling into their new lives as students at the Academy for the Exploratory Sciences when Kit finds another mysterious map left for him by their father, the brilliant, famous ? and presumed dead ? explorer Alexander West. Why did Alexander leave the maps behind, and why are government agents so determined to seize them? What is really going on in a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's McMullens 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Taylor 2014Taylor, S. S.
Summary: After an explorer with a clockwork hand gives Kit West an old book from his father, he and his siblings must evade government agents while solving the puzzle their father sent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's McMullens 2013
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Taylor 2013Rosenstock, Barb
Summary: "A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: As the world teeters on the edge of war, Explorer-in-Training Kit West finishes his spy training and is sent on his first secret mission: a dangerous journey across the Simerian Desert to retrieve a secret map that will allow his government to fend off an invasion. But things are not as they seem and Kit must battle deadly sandstorms, ruthless spies, and government agents to find the map and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Taylor 2019Larson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne was the first person to discover what burns at the heart of stars. But she didn't start out as the groundbreaking scientist she would eventually become. She started out as a girl full of curiosity, hoping one day to unlock the mysteries of the universe. With lyrical, evocative text by Kirsten W. Larson and extraordinary illustrations by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023