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Robotics: Discover The Science And Technology Of The Future With 20 Projects

Written by Kathy Ceceri and Illustrated by Sam Carbaugh
Just what are robots and how do they work? With step-by-step instructions learn how to build your...
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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium

Written by Carla Killough McClafferty
Marie Curie's worked on radioactivity changed science forever. Explore the life of one of the most...
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Space Exploration: Science, Technology, Engineering

Written by Will Mara
Find out all about the history of space exploration and the unique skills you need to begin your own...
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The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Surprising Stories about Inventions

Written by Don L. Wulffson
What's the story behind some of your favorite inventions? From sundaes to Mickey Mouse, learn the...
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Girls Think Of Everything: Stories Of Ingenious Inventions By Women

Written by Catherine Thimmesh and Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Check out some of the coolest inventions created by women and girls and see what inspired their...
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Technology: A Byte-Sized World! (Basher Science)

Written by Simon Basher and Dan Green and Illustrated by Simon Basher
Discover the secrets behind the computer technology that dominates our modern world, from the...
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Guinness World Records: Fearless Feats

Written by Laurie Calkhoven and Ryan Herndon
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: FEARLESS FEATS presents the world's most awesome human records. You'll meet...
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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Written by Gretchen Woelfle and Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War...
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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Written by Tonya Bolden
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln’s order went into effect, this book...
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Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Written by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history...

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican...
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Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

Written by Tonya Bolden
Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the...
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Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

Written by Michael Burgan
At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted his life to learning all he...
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The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Written by Teri Kanefield
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on...
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Written by Steve Sheinkin
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve...
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This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Written by Linda Barrett Osborne
American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven...
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Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

Written by Larry Dane Brimner
Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961
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Adam of the Road

Written by Elizabeth Janet Gray and Illustrated by Robert Lawson

Adam, aged 11, loves to travel with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. They travel...

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Amos Fortune, Free Man

Written by Elizabeth Yates
Based on the life of Amos Fortune, who was captured in Africa in the 1700s, and sold as a slave in...
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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

Written by Cornelia Meigs

Before Louisa May Alcott wrote her iconic and beloved novel, Little Women, she had her own...

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Rabbit Hill

Written by Robert Lawson
The Big House, in Westport, Connecticut, has been empty for some time, and the animals miss the...
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The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Written by Elizabeth Coatsworth and Illustrated by Raol Vitale
Set in ancient Japan, the story is about a struggling artist and his cat. When his housekeeper...
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The Door in the Wall

Written by Marguerite de Angeli

Set in the Middle Ages in England during the Black Death (bubonic plague), the story is about Robin...

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The Twenty-One Balloons

Written and Illustrated by William Pène du Bois

Professor William Waterman Sherman, a retired schoolteacher, sets out to fly across the Pacific...

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