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1) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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English
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"From Columbus through to the twenty-first century, Don't Know Much About History takes readers on a tour through more than 500 years of American life. Drawing on the latest scholarship and new archaeological discoveries, Davis presents a thorough overview of American history that is exciting, interesting and fun to learn." --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Browsers and young students alike will enjoy these lively question and answer books with their unique mix of realistic illustration and engaging cartoons. The enticing questions will amaze, amuse and inspire, while the highly visual format encourages kids to keep reading.
11) The human body
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a photographic guide to the human body, examining the skeleton and bones, muscles, heart and lungs, and other systems and senses, including the brain.
12) The baby tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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After learning that his parents are expecting a baby, a young boy asks several people where babies come from and gets a different answer from each before his parents have a chance to give the right answer. Includes advice on answering questions about reproduction.
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English
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Every story in this book is strange and astounding. But not all of them are real. Just like the old game in this book's title, two out of every three stories are completely true, and one is an outright lie. Can you guess which? It's not going to be easy. Some false stories are based on truth, and some of the true stories are just plain unbelievable. And they're all accompanied by dozens of photos, maps, and illustrations.
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English
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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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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child's immediate world, "Big Book of Why?" delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more. It helps prepare preschoolers for school in an interactive way. Full color.
18) Guess what?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of a lady called Daisy O'Grady are revealed.
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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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Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Answers questions about the ocean, including how water gets to the ocean, what causes waves, and how rubber duckies helped ocean scientists learn more about how the ocean's waters move.