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Artists' journals, and sketchbooks : exploring and creating personal pages /

Perrella, Lynne.


Getting started: creating personal pages -- Book itself: examining covers and types of journals -- True fiction: adding text to pages -- Icons and imagery: keeping an artist sketchbook -- Expanding the boundaries: exploring alternative surfaces and forms. Presents a collection of practical ideas for creating personal pages using a variety of art supplies and materials and includes hundreds of suggestions from contemporary artists on design and style using paint, fabric, stamps, and other objects.
Date Published:2004

Getting started: creating personal pages -- Book itself: examining covers and types of journals -- True fiction: adding text to pages -- Icons and imagery: keeping an artist sketchbook -- Expanding the boundaries: exploring alternative surfaces and forms. Presents a collection of practical ideas for creating personal pages using a variety of art supplies and materials and includes hundreds of suggestions from contemporary artists on design and style using paint, fabric, stamps, and other objects.

Date Published:2004

Who was Albert Einstein?

Brallier, Jess M.


Tells the life story of history-making physicist Albert Einstein, describing his beginnings as a scientist, his experiences in Nazi Germany, his arrival in the U.S., and his major accomplishments, and includes a chronology.
Date Published:2002

Let's explore Earth

Orme, Helen.


Includes index. Where is Earth? -- Planet facts -- Life on Earth -- What's the weather like? -- Changing temperatures -- Earth's crust -- On the surface -- The moon and satellites -- Earth in history -- Exploring Earth. Library Media Connection, November 2007. Photographs, illustrations, and simple text provide details about the Earth including what it looks like, its orbit and moon, weather patterns on Earth, the Earth's crust, and other interesting facts about Earth.
Date Published:2007

Includes index. Where is Earth? -- Planet facts -- Life on Earth -- What's the weather like? -- Changing temperatures -- Earth's crust -- On the surface -- The moon and satellites -- Earth in history -- Exploring Earth. Library Media Connection, November 2007. Photographs, illustrations, and simple text provide details about the Earth including what it looks like, its orbit and moon, weather patterns on Earth, the Earth's crust, and other interesting facts about Earth.

Date Published:2007

The Titanic : an interactive history adventure /

Temple, Bob.


School Library Journal, Presents an interactive history adventure featuring the "Titanic," a major passenger steamship. Offers three paths for the reader to take when sharing in the adventure from London to New York City either as a first class passenger, a third-class immigrant, and as a crew member trying to keep people safe. Discusses the people on board, the luxury of the ship, and the danger ahead. Is accompanied by black-and-white photographs.
Date Published:2008

School Library Journal, Presents an interactive history adventure featuring the "Titanic," a major passenger steamship. Offers three paths for the reader to take when sharing in the adventure from London to New York City either as a first class passenger, a third-class immigrant, and as a crew member trying to keep people safe. Discusses the people on board, the luxury of the ship, and the danger ahead. Is accompanied by black-and-white photographs.

Date Published:2008

Welcome to Everglades National Park

Higgins, Nadia.


A web of life -- Two seasons -- A troubled past -- A river of grass -- Tree islands -- Pinelands -- By the ocean. School Library Journal, February 2007. A guide to the flora, fauna, and trails of Everglades National Park.
Date Published:2007

The Bad Guys in intergalactic gas

Blabey, Aaron.


The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to "borrow" a rocket. And there might be something nasty in one of the spacesuits. And Mr. Piranha miiiight have eaten too many bean burritos. Surviving this mission may only be one small step for man, but it's one giant leap for the Bad Guys.
Date Published:2017

How Georgie Radbourn saved baseball

Shannon, David, 1959-


After Boss outlaws baseball in America, spring stops coming--until a young boy beats the tyrant at his own game.
Date Published:1994

Bottlenose dolphins up close

Rake, Jody Sullivan.


Includes glossary. This book describes the physical traits, the habits, and the life cycle of bottlenose dolphins.
Date Published:2009

The grip

Stroman, Marcus, 1991-


Kirkus Review, February 2023. Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.
Date Published:2023

The winner is--

Harper, Charise Mericle.


Kirkus Review, June 2018. The finalists face surprises as they find their culinary knowledge, ingenuity, and friendship tested in the final week of competition that will determine who earns the title of Next Best Junior Chef.
Date Published:2018

On the field with-- Albert Pujols

Peters, Stephanie True, 1965-


This book describes the life and career of Albert Pujols, who plays first base for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Date Published:2009

I am the book



Date Published:2011

Let's vote on it!

Behrens, Janice, 1972-


Vote for a class pet -- Time to choose -- Which pet wins? -- Let's keep voting -- My mom votes!. Follows the process by which a group of students decides whether to get a goldfish or a hermit crab for the class pet.
Date Published:2010

Golden eagle vs. great horned owl

Sommer, Nathan.


The competitors -- Secret weapons -- Attack moves -- Ready, fight!. "Photography accompanies . . . information about golden eagles and great horned owls. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Trouble according to Humphrey

Birney, Betty G


Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, relates the ups and downs experienced by his human classmates as they begin a project to create a model town complete with houses and community services.
Date Published:2007

Swim team

Christmas, Johnnie.


School Library Journal starred, April 2022. Booklist starred, April 2022. Pub Weekly, April 2022. Kirkus Starred, March 2022. New York Times, July 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Library Media Connection, August 2022. "Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

School Library Journal starred, April 2022. Booklist starred, April 2022. Pub Weekly, April 2022. Kirkus Starred, March 2022. New York Times, July 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Library Media Connection, August 2022. "Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2022

The teacher from the Black Lagoon and other stories

Thaler, Mike, 1936-


"Cartwheel books." The teacher from the Black Lagoon -- The gym teacher from the Black Lagoon -- The principal from the Black Lagoon -- The librarian from the Black Lagoon. Compilation of four Black Lagoon stories in which young Hubie must face the monstrous adults who run his school.
Date Published:2006

Are you my mother?

Eastman, P. D. (Philip D.)


"Beginner books." Wilson's Children, October 2010. Book Links (A.L.A.), November 1998. Library Journal. A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother.
Date Published:1988

The school is alive!

Chabert, Jack,


School Library Journal, May 2014. Booklist, June 2014. Horn Book, October 2014. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2014. Library Media Connection, January 2015. Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and, as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them, but he will need some help from his friends.
Date Published:2014

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

Rowling, J. K.


"Year 7"--Spine. Sequel to: Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. Harry Potter sets out on a final quest to stop his archenemy, the evil Lord Voldemort, with his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, before the wizarding world can be destroyed by Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
Date Published:2007