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Author
Publisher
LAK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
164 pages : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what the biggest failures in American history are?
Which sports teams just can’t seem to catch a break and keep failing, over and over and over in the most disastrous manner?
What are some of the biggest failures in American pop culture?
In The United States of Epic Fails: 52 Crazy Stories and Blunders Through History That You Didn't Get Taught in School you’ll learn all about these embarrassing moments and many other...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's inaction unforgivable. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed...
Author
Publisher
HEEL
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Extended and revised edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
This "volume of the...Lego builders' books series addresses beginners as well as skilled builders who want to improve their building techniques and create individual and lifelike buildings, vehicles and all kinds of other fancy designs. Step-by-step instructions help the reader to come up with their own personal Lego masterpiece. The authors clearly demonstrate how to build 'around the corner' or put Lego bricks together so no studs can be seen from...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2021 .
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"cities can be surprisingly wild places, especially for the scientists who study them. Join Cylita Guy as she shares the exciting adventures of urban ecologists - herself included - whose work shows that studying urban wildlife can help us make cities healthier for all of their inhabitants.
From a rodent-tracking Ratmobile to a weather station on the back of a bike, discover all the ways these scientists study nature in your neighborhood - and try...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"History has often ignored men who loved men, women who loved women, and people who lived outside gender boundaries. Lee Wind examines primary source letters, poems, and more to rethink the lives and loves of historical figures"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Language
English
Description
Tracing the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape, a journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor gives readers the skills to identify and counter poorly sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Ember edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, Sara Saedi was a bright-eyed, straight-A student whose biggest desires were clear skin, acting lessons, and for her crush to realize she was alive. But at thirteen, she uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Free speech is guaranteed under the First Amendment. Although it may hurt and offend, hate speech is still free, under most circumstances. But what happens when institutions like universities adopt policies prohibiting offensive speech? Do such policies cause more harm than good? Should measures be taken to curb threatening or insulting comments? Or does that amount to little more than censorship? Is our quest to be polite and politically correct...
Author
Physical Desc
224 pages : Golden edge pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Literary World of the nineteenth century was lit up by six of England's Greatest Poets. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake were in the vanguard of the early Romantic movement that broke from the past, emphasizing the individual and personal, embracing imagination over reason. Romanticism's second wave saw Byron, Shelley and Keats come to the fore, rebels who breathed new life into the movement which spawned some of the best poetry in English Literature."...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest on the streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. We still don't know who Banksy is, but thanks to this book we have a greater sense of how he works. This book features approximately eighty works from the start of his street art career to today, most photographed...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 198 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and appeal. Assuming that readers are familiar with all three volumes of The Hunger Games, the book also avoids plot summary and character analysis, instead focusing on the significance of the story and its characters"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover your procrastination type; warrior, pleaser, perfectionist, or rebel, as well as the unique strengths inherent in each type. This is a book to help you understand why you procrastinate, whether or not procrastination works for you, and if not, how to improve your work habits and really get things done. By helping you uncover your own unique strengths, this book will help you master your to-do list and your life.
16) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
�2011
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This latest book in the GentleManners series was written especially for girls ages 8 to 14, to teach them the basic skills every young lady should have and every young lady's mother and grandmother want her to have. Topics covered in 50 Things Every Young Lady Should Know include: Making conversation with adults, accepting a gift you don't like, using social media, dressing appropriately and winning and losing graciously.
Author
Publisher
Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Written especially for LGBTQ teens, this thoroughly revised and updated edition guides you through everything you need to know about dating, coming out, safe sex, dealing with queerphobia, and standing up for your rights. Irreverent, engaging, and honest, 'Queer' is a must-have for all teens who think they might be queer--or know someone who is.
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the extraordinary life and work of Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor."--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...