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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Storey Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Cast off with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee on the ultimate journey through the knitter's world. Pack your crafting bag, chart a course to the nearest yarn shop, and pick your traveling companion by looking for the telltale needle holes in her purse. With wry humor and a contagiously obsessive love for everything knitted, Pearl-McPhee takes you on a hilarious tour of the Land of Knitting and introduces you to the wacky, wonderful people that choose to inhabit...
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Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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History is a treasure trove of bizarre facts from the downright gruesome to the simply hilarious. This volume explores multiple eras for some revolting and awesome trivia. Gross-out humor and silly illustrations will keep any young reader engaged from cover to cover.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Featuring colorful, comic-style artwork, an introduction to parrots is presented through humorous text complemented by engaging facts, from how parrots see ultraviolet light to how they can identify colors in human language.
11) Wild animals
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Take a look at the world's weirdest animals--from blobfish to Octogoat. These stories are too strange to be made up!
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English
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"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
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Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The natural world is filled with countless weird, wild, and wonderful creatures, of all shapes and species. Meet the world's slowest animal. Learn why one animal eats coral. And discover one of the most toxic creatures on the planet!"--Back cover.
16) Guru
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Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"RuPaul's secrets for success not only in show business, but in all aspects of life, especially in navigating the emotional landmines [of life]"--
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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For coffee lovers and those who love them, "Coffee Gives Me Superpowers" is a fun, graphic design-centered book focused on one of the world's most addictive and beloved substances--coffee. If coffee is the foundation of your food pyramid, then this is your book. Inspired by Ryoko Iwata's popular Web site, I Love Coffee (en.ilovecoffee.jp), "Coffee Gives Me Superpowers" is overflowing with infographics and fun, interesting facts about the most awesome...
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