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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history." --
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
637 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
How is it possible for the disciplines of cosmology, geology, anthropology, biology, and history to fit together? These 48 lectures answer that question by weaving a single story from accounts of the past developed by a variety of scholarly disciplines. The result is a story stretching from the origins of the universe to the present day and beyond, in which human history is seen as part of the history of our Earth and biosphere, and the Earth's
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the scientific discovery, conservation, and current understandings of giant pandas to trace their story and reveal how the species reflects changing attitudes toward the natural world and contributes to China's rise to a super-power.
Author
Language
English
Description
1910, Mexico. The country's revolution spreads. Dolores, daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City; she marries Jaime del Río. At a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and practically overnight, the famous Miss del Río is born. Swept up in Tinseltown's glitzy inner circle, she takes her...
17) The moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
48 pages :bill. (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Human beings first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, marking one of the most important events in the history of space exploration. Since then, scientists have continued to learn more about Earth's sole natural satellite. Readers will learn what it is like to walk on the surface of the moon and what role the satellite plays in the solar system. They will also find out how scientists first began studying the moon and how they are continuing their...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who's paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights.
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