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Empire of ancient Egypt

Christensen, Wendy.


Egypt before the empire -- Imperial Egypt -- Egypt's long decline -- Egyptian society -- Everyday life in Egypt -- Egyptian religion, science, and culture. Library Media Connection, October 2005. Presents a brief summary of the history of Egypt and describes the life of the ancient Egyptians, their religion, science, and culture, and the decline of the empire.
Date Published:2005

Celebrate Thanksgiving Day

Kule, Elaine A.


Grateful neighbors -- Holiday beginnings -- Cultural contributions -- Thanksgiving around the world -- Holiday symbols -- Thanksgiving today. Explores Thanksgiving Day's origins, its establishment as a U.S. holiday, and the development of its traditions, and describes thanksgiving holidays and festivals in other countries.
Date Published:2006

Kimchi & calamari

Kent, Rose


Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. Booklist, February 2007. Horn Book, October 2007. Kirkus Review, April 2007. Multicultural Review, December 2007. Kliatt, March 2007. After getting caught lying on a school project about who his grandfather was, fourteen-year-old Joseph Claderno is forced to redo the assignment and learns more about his adopted Italian-American family and Korean heritage than he ever thought possible.
Date Published:2007

Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. Booklist, February 2007. Horn Book, October 2007. Kirkus Review, April 2007. Multicultural Review, December 2007. Kliatt, March 2007. After getting caught lying on a school project about who his grandfather was, fourteen-year-old Joseph Claderno is forced to redo the assignment and learns more about his adopted Italian-American family and Korean heritage than he ever thought possible.

Date Published:2007

Baha'i Faith

Hartz, Paula.


Title from Web page (viewed on June 22, 2009). Examines the history and beliefs of the world's youngest independent religion known as the Baha'i Faith.
Date Published:2009

Medieval castles

Stokstad, Marilyn, 1929-


Reference and Research Book News, February 2006. Presents an overview of the medieval castle, providing an examination of how they were employed in battle as walled fortresses, as well as their role as a symbol of a power and social control. Includes glossary, chronology, and index.
Date Published:2005

America's real first Thanksgiving : St. Augustine, Florida, September 8, 1565 /

Gioia, Robyn.


The world in 1565 -- Uncharted lands -- Spain in the 1560s -- Florida in the 1560s -- The Timucua, St. Augustine's Native Americans -- The founding of St. Augustine, 1565 -- Day of thanksgiving -- St. Augustine today -- Cocido Recipe. Horn Book, October 2007. Provides an account of America's first real Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Spanish and the native Timucua in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 with a feast that may have included a pork stew, wild turkey, corn, and beans.
Date Published:2007

The world in 1565 -- Uncharted lands -- Spain in the 1560s -- Florida in the 1560s -- The Timucua, St. Augustine's Native Americans -- The founding of St. Augustine, 1565 -- Day of thanksgiving -- St. Augustine today -- Cocido Recipe. Horn Book, October 2007. Provides an account of America's first real Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Spanish and the native Timucua in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 with a feast that may have included a pork stew, wild turkey, corn, and beans.

Date Published:2007

The Star Cloak

Rodda, Emily


Sequel to: The unicorn. When Giff the elf comes asking for Jessie's help, she returns to the Realm on a quest to have the fairies mend the Star Cloak in time for Wish Night.
Date Published:2005

Music and mathematics : from Pythagoras to fractals /


Tuning and temperament : closing the spiral / Neil Bibby -- Musical cosmology : Kepler and his readers / J. V. Field -- Science of musical sound / Charles Taylor -- Faggot's fretful fiasco / Ian Stewart -- Helmholtz : combinational tones and consonance / David Fowler -- Geometry of music / Wilfrid Hodges -- Ringing the changes : bells and mathematics / Dermot Roaf and Arthur White -- Composing with numbers : sets, rows and magic squares / Jonathan Cross -- Microtones and projective planes / Carlton Gamer and Robin Wilson -- Composing with fractals / Robert Sherlaw Johnson. Choice, November 2004. Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), September 2004. Contains ten illustrated essays in which the authors explore the relationship between mathematics and music, discussing the mathematics of musical sound, mathematical structure in music, musical cosmology, fractals, and other topics.
Date Published:2003

Tuning and temperament : closing the spiral / Neil Bibby -- Musical cosmology : Kepler and his readers / J. V. Field -- Science of musical sound / Charles Taylor -- Faggot's fretful fiasco / Ian Stewart -- Helmholtz : combinational tones and consonance / David Fowler -- Geometry of music / Wilfrid Hodges -- Ringing the changes : bells and mathematics / Dermot Roaf and Arthur White -- Composing with numbers : sets, rows and magic squares / Jonathan Cross -- Microtones and projective planes / Carlton Gamer and Robin Wilson -- Composing with fractals / Robert Sherlaw Johnson. Choice, November 2004. Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), September 2004. Contains ten illustrated essays in which the authors explore the relationship between mathematics and music, discussing the mathematics of musical sound, mathematical structure in music, musical cosmology, fractals, and other topics.

Date Published:2003

Everything is fine

Ellis, Ann Dee.


When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby sister.
Date Published:2009

Focus on Japan

Tidmarsh, Celia.


Explores the history, culture, and people of Japan; and describes its population and settlements, government and politics, economy and education, religions, and environment.
Date Published:2007

Warriors Don't Cry : A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High /

Beals, Melba


Unabridged. The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white students and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
Date Published:2011

Notes from the midnight driver

Sonnenblick, Jordan.


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. School Library Journal, October 2006. Booklist starred, October 2006. Horn Book Starred, September 2006. Pub Weekly, September 2006. Horn Book, April 2007. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2007. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2006. Kirkus Review, September 2006. After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
Date Published:2006

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. School Library Journal, October 2006. Booklist starred, October 2006. Horn Book Starred, September 2006. Pub Weekly, September 2006. Horn Book, April 2007. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2007. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2006. Kirkus Review, September 2006. After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.

Date Published:2006

Free baseball

Corbett, Sue.


Wilson's Children, October 2006. Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. School Library Journal, February 2006. Publisher's Weekly, January 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2006. Kirkus Review, December 2005. Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
Date Published:2006

Wilson's Children, October 2006. Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007. School Library Journal, February 2006. Publisher's Weekly, January 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2006. Kirkus Review, December 2005. Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.

Date Published:2006

Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie


The glass menagerie / Nancy M. Tischler -- Tennessee Williams, theatre poet in prose / Frank Durham -- The glass menagerie : "It's no tragedy, Freckles" / Thomas E. Scheye -- The composition of The glass menagerie : an argument for complexity / Brian Parker -- The glass menagerie (1944) / Roger Boxill -- "More than just a little Chekhovian" : The sea gull as a source for the characters in The glass menagerie / Drewey Wayne Gunn -- Entering The glass menagerie / C.W.E. Bigsby -- "Where memory begins" : new Texas light on The glass menagerie / Gilbert Debusscher -- The Blue Rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / Bert Cardullo -- Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier : a contextual comparison / William Fordyce -- Flying the Jolly Roger : images of escape and selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single. Contains eleven critical analyses of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie;" and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom and a chronology of the author's life.
Date Published:2007

The glass menagerie / Nancy M. Tischler -- Tennessee Williams, theatre poet in prose / Frank Durham -- The glass menagerie : "It's no tragedy, Freckles" / Thomas E. Scheye -- The composition of The glass menagerie : an argument for complexity / Brian Parker -- The glass menagerie (1944) / Roger Boxill -- "More than just a little Chekhovian" : The sea gull as a source for the characters in The glass menagerie / Drewey Wayne Gunn -- Entering The glass menagerie / C.W.E. Bigsby -- "Where memory begins" : new Texas light on The glass menagerie / Gilbert Debusscher -- The Blue Rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / Bert Cardullo -- Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier : a contextual comparison / William Fordyce -- Flying the Jolly Roger : images of escape and selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single. Contains eleven critical analyses of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie;" and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom and a chronology of the author's life.

Date Published:2007

Number the stars

Lowry, Lois


Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal, September 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Child Study Children's Book Committee. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Date Published:1989

Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal, September 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Child Study Children's Book Committee. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Date Published:1989

The talking T. Rex

Roy, Ron, 1940-


"A Stepping Stone Book." Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
Date Published:2003

Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain /

Sacks, Oliver W.


Haunted by music -- Range of musicality -- Memory, movement, and music -- Emotion, identity, and music. "Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds - for everything but music. Dr. Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia." - Back cover.
Date Published:2008

Haunted by music -- Range of musicality -- Memory, movement, and music -- Emotion, identity, and music. "Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds - for everything but music. Dr. Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia." - Back cover.

Date Published:2008

The mighty Miss Malone

Curtis, Christopher Paul


With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
Date Published:2012

Ravenpaw's farewell

Hunter, Erin.,


Electronic book. In this novella from the world of Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series, follow Ravenpaw on his final adventure. Since Ravenpaw chose to leave his life as a warrior behind, he has lived for many happy moons on the farm near the Clans' old forest territories. But now two kits in need will send him on one last journey--in search of a long-lost warrior Clan. Warriors: Ravenpaw's Farewell.
Date Published:2016

Electronic book. In this novella from the world of Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series, follow Ravenpaw on his final adventure. Since Ravenpaw chose to leave his life as a warrior behind, he has lived for many happy moons on the farm near the Clans' old forest territories. But now two kits in need will send him on one last journey--in search of a long-lost warrior Clan. Warriors: Ravenpaw's Farewell.

Date Published:2016

Circle nine

Heltzel, Anne.


For seventeen-year-old Abby, the mysterious Sam is her sole companion and her whole life, but although life in his cave-palace seems ideal, she begins to remember her past identity and to question Sam's devotion in the face of an ever-changing reality.
Date Published:2011