Summary: Sight is arguably the most important sense. It translates light using photons into electrical pulses and travels into the visual cortex of the brains. This one-hour documentary looks at the science, medicine, and technology of vision and the individuals who are battling blindness disorders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIGPfeffer, Wendy
Summary: An introduction to light and how it helps us to see profiles different kinds of light, including sunlight, firelight and electric light, and provides interactive experiments readers can perform at school or at home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 535 PFEKing, Yolanda Renee
Summary: "The granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KINSpiro, Ruth
Summary: Explores the science behind the sense of sight, and technical advances that can help people with impaired vision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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Summary: "An inspiring young leader's moving call to action for anyone who seeks to make the world a better place-and the first title from Melinda French Gates's Moment of Lift Books. As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served-not to mention his family and friends-shared his conviction that all girls belong in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.822 SENMiller, Andy J.
Summary: "This creatively wacky and interactive exploration of the abstract concepts of the human experience, such as feelings and thoughts, encourages readers to look past the visible and connect with the things that are not seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches especially the high school's basketball team, the Dragons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 YANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YANGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction YangStahr, Walter
Summary: "From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASE, SALMON P. STASjoberg, Lena
Summary: Celebrates all things that can be seen in the dark, from nocturnal animals, deep-sea fish, glowing plants, and the stars of the night sky.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 525 SJOStewart-Sharpe, Leisa
Summary: "An adventure to experience all five senses at the world's most extreme locations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ROSBarnes, Katie
Summary: "A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.082 BARGilmour, David
Summary: Documents the author's efforts to impart key life lessons to his high-school-dropout son by showing him three movies every week, in an account that describes how the films enabled dialogues about a range of life issues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GILEklöf, Johan
Summary: "In the tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 EKLDennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DENJenkins, Martin
Summary: Young readers are invited to join a determined fox as she sets out to find her dinner in this simple, stylish introduction to light and dark. Full color.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Sci JenkinsClaybourne, Anna
Summary: "Kids learn about the brain in this collection of fun, illuminating experiments they can do themselves"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.8 CLAClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLISummary: This expert-curated guide book to Isle of Wight shines a spotlight on a more unusual British break, with a wealth of practical information on what to see and do. Each area or neighbourhood featured in this Isle of Wight travel guide is explored in-depth with detailed coverage of the points of interest, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars on offer. Excursions to surrounding areas give plenty of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.228 ISLBrett, Flora.
Summary: "From a cat's point of view, tells about cat senses, providing insight into cat behavior and abilities"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.8 BREYong, Ed
Summary: "The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 YONTwydle, Peter.
Summary: The fountain pen as we know it today developed over thousands of years, from the simple stylus used for cutting marks into clay tablets, to the brush, through the reed, the quill, and the steel-nib dip pen, and finally to the self-contained fountain pen. The advent of electronic communication of the written word has failed to dim the appeal of the fountain pen, and names such as Parker,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowood Press 2009