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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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"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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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.
8) Ask me
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A father and daughter explore their neighborhood, talking and asking questions as they go.
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Adventure Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Do beavers need blankets? Do bears sleep with teddy bears? Does a moose need a mattress? Sure, these questions are silly, but sometimes the answers might surprise you! Stan Tekiela combines a child's imagination with facts about how 13 animal species sleep. With adorable photographs of real animals, this eye-opening book will have readers awake with excitement.
11) Insect world
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents, in question and answer format, information about the behavior, food-gathering, defenses, anatomy, and surprising habits of all kinds of insects.
12) Wonder walkers
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
13) The Book of Gold
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Isaac isn't interested in much, but when a mysterious shopkeeper tells him about a legendary book that holds the answers to every question ever asked, he embarks on a lifelong search for the Book of Gold"--
14) What If? 2
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Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The millions of people around the world who loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would...
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Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"Fourth grader Wren Jo Byrd questions lots of things--both little and big--when her parents decide to get a divorce, and learns a lot about the true meaning of family, home, and friendship"--
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Corimbo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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"Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty and fun in their routine and the world around them" -- Amazon.com.
"Jackson y su abuela toman el autobús...