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Astronomy and space

Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-


Includes index. Science fair basics -- Here comes the sun -- Mooning around -- Count on it -- Staying in (space) shape -- Catch a falling star -- Wham! Bam! Crash! -- Total eclipse -- Twinkle, twinkle little star -- Finding a heavenly body -- The competition. Horn Book, October 2007. Provides step-by-step instruction for nine science fair projects about astronomy and space; offers advice on displays and added features; and includes a section on the competition.
Date Published:2007

Includes index. Science fair basics -- Here comes the sun -- Mooning around -- Count on it -- Staying in (space) shape -- Catch a falling star -- Wham! Bam! Crash! -- Total eclipse -- Twinkle, twinkle little star -- Finding a heavenly body -- The competition. Horn Book, October 2007. Provides step-by-step instruction for nine science fair projects about astronomy and space; offers advice on displays and added features; and includes a section on the competition.

Date Published:2007

Alex and Eliza : a love story /

De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-,


Alex and Eliza, È#1ÈNew York TimesÈbestselling author Melissa de la Cruz brings to life the romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler.
Date Published:2017

The hive detectives : chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe /

Burns, Loree Griffin.


""Front Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Appendix Bee""; ""Glossary""; ""Materials to Study""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Select References""; ""Index"". Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.
Date Published:2010

""Front Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Appendix Bee""; ""Glossary""; ""Materials to Study""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Select References""; ""Index"". Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.

Date Published:2010

Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation /

Tonatiuh, Duncan.


"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
Date Published:2014

Coraline

Gaiman, Neil.


Title from eBook information screen. Special features: Contains half a dozen e-book extras, not available in the standard print edition, including facsimile pages of Neil Gaiman's Coraline notebook and additional illustrations by Dave McKean. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Date Published:2002

Title from eBook information screen. Special features: Contains half a dozen e-book extras, not available in the standard print edition, including facsimile pages of Neil Gaiman's Coraline notebook and additional illustrations by Dave McKean. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Date Published:2002

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


The tributes -- The games -- The victor. In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Date Published:2008

Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter /

Grahame-Smith, Seth.


EBook. pt. 1. Boy. -- Exceptional child -- Two stories -- Henry -- A truth too terrible -- pt. 2. Vampire hunter. -- New Salem -- Ann -- The fatal first -- "Some great calamity" -- At last, peace -- pt. 3. President. -- A house divided -- Casualities -- "Starve the devils" -- Thus always to tyrants -- Home. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years.
Date Published:2010

EBook. pt. 1. Boy. -- Exceptional child -- Two stories -- Henry -- A truth too terrible -- pt. 2. Vampire hunter. -- New Salem -- Ann -- The fatal first -- "Some great calamity" -- At last, peace -- pt. 3. President. -- A house divided -- Casualities -- "Starve the devils" -- Thus always to tyrants -- Home. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years.

Date Published:2010

Cars, trucks, and bikes

Parker, Steve, 1952-


Title from Web page (viewed on August 22, 2013). Includes index. Provides detailed information on fifteen different vehicles, including a mountain bike, dragster, city bus, fire truck, and more, with an overview of their inner workings and the history of their use.
Date Published:2011

The lost hero

Riordan, Rick.


Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Children, September 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, February 2011. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2007. Horn Book Starred, October 2007. Kirkus Starred, April 2007. Booklist, May 2007. Horn Book, May 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2011. Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Date Published:2010

Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Children, September 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, February 2011. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2007. Horn Book Starred, October 2007. Kirkus Starred, April 2007. Booklist, May 2007. Horn Book, May 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2011. Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

Date Published:2010

The cruel prince

Black, Holly.


School Library Journal starred, October 2017. Booklist starred, October 2017. Pub Weekly, October 2017. Booklist, October 2017. New York Times, March 2018. Horn Book, January 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Kirkus Review, October 2017. Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, October 2017. Booklist starred, October 2017. Pub Weekly, October 2017. Booklist, October 2017. New York Times, March 2018. Horn Book, January 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Kirkus Review, October 2017. Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

Date Published:2018

Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro /

Preus, Margi.


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2011. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2011. Booklist starred, July 2010. Pub Weekly, July 2010. Kirkus Starred, July 2010. Horn Book, May 2011. In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Date Published:2010

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2011. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2011. Booklist starred, July 2010. Pub Weekly, July 2010. Kirkus Starred, July 2010. Horn Book, May 2011. In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Date Published:2010

The final gambit

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn.


Sequel to: The Hawthorne legacy. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her.
Date Published:2022

Who was Anne Frank

Abramson, Ann.


Who was Anne Frank? -- A happy home -- A new home -- Another World War -- Occupied! -- Yellow stars -- Kitty -- The secret annex -- Caught! -- Dream comes true. Tells the life story of Anne Frank, the Dutch Jewish girl whose diary chronicling her years in hiding from the Nazis became beloved the world over after her death, and includes a chronology and bibliography.
Date Published:2007

Catholicism & Orthodox Christianity

Brown, Stephen F.


Includes glossary. This book recounts the historical passage of the Catholic and Orthodox faiths, from the original teachings of Jesus Christ to the early separation of the Eastern and Western churches.
Date Published:2006

Catching fire

Collins, Suzanne.


Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2009. Booklist starred, July 2009. Pub Weekly, June 2009. Kirkus Starred, July 2009. New York Times, October 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Teacher Librarian, April 2010. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2009. Booklist starred, July 2009. Pub Weekly, June 2009. Kirkus Starred, July 2009. New York Times, October 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Teacher Librarian, April 2010. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Date Published:2009

The throne of fire

Riordan, Rick.


School Library Journal starred, June 2011. Booklist, May 2011. Horn Book, September 2011. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2011. Carter and Sadie must outsmart the House of Life and the gods of chaos in order to complete their worldwide search for an ancient Egyptian book.
Date Published:2011

Don't look back

Armentrout, Jennifer L.


Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Cassie is still missing, and the facts about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory-someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if "not" remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?
Date Published:2014

Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Cassie is still missing, and the facts about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory-someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if "not" remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?

Date Published:2014

Persepolis : the story of a childhood /

Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-


Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.
Date Published:2003

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Date Published:2008

The lightning thief

Riordan, Rick.


Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Date Published:2005

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

Date Published:2005