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WHO WAS GALILEO?
Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the heavens. From there, not even the sky was the limit! He turned long-held notions about the universe topsy tur…
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- 978-0-448-47985-9
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 DEM w c.1 2022110029
WHO WAS CONFUCIUS?
Learn more about China's most famous teacher and philosopher, whose ideas are still influential today. Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he'd become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, and poetry, with his students. Confucius wanted to make sur…
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- 978-1-5427-8873-5
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- 108 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 BUR w c.1 2022110028
WHAT WAS POMPEII?
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700 years. In 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful…
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- 978-0-448-47907-1
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; por. ; 20 cm.
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- 900 OCO w c.1 2022110027
WHAT WAS THE TITANIC
For more than one hundred years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing…
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- 978-0-515-15726-0
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- 107 p. ; ill. ; por. ; 20 cm.
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- 900 SAB w c,1 2022110026
WHERE IS THE GREAT WALL?
More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth. Throug…
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- 978-0-448-48358-0
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- 106 p. : ill. ; col. map ; 20 cm
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- 900 DEM w c.1 2022110025
WHERE IS THE AMAZON?
Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can…
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- 978-0-448-48826-4
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- 108 p. : ill. ; col. map ; 20 cm
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- 900 FAB w c.1 2022110024
WHERE IS THE PARTHENON?
Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis,…
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- 978-0-448-48889-9
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- 108 p. : ill. ; col. map ; 20 cm
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- 900 EDW w c.1 2022110023
THE LITTLE PRINCE
This parable tells the story of an air pilot who meets a Little Prince when he has to make a forced landing in the Sahara Desert. The Little Prince tells him wise and enchanted stories.
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- 978-1-784-87418-6
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- 83 p. ; col. Ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 823 SAI t c.1 2022110022
KENSUKE'S KINGDOM
When Michael's father loses his job, he buys a boat and convinces Michael and his mother to sail around the world. It's an ideal trip - even Michael's sheepdog can come along. It starts out as the perfect family adventure - until Michael is swept overboard. He's washed up on an island, where he struggles to survive. Then he discovers that he's not alone. His fellow-castaway, Kensuke, is wary of…
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- 978-0-439-59181-2
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- 163 p. ; 20 cm.
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- 823 MOR k c.1 2022110021
GERONIMO STILTON: THEA STILTON AND THE RAINFOREST RESCUE
Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship! The Thea Sisters are heading to Malaysia. Their friends, Latifah and Ramlee, are writing a travel guide and have asked the sisters to help them research. They are stopping at all the best sites, eating all the best foods, and seeing the most amazing animals, especially in the rainforest. While they are e…
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- 978-1-338-65513-1
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- 168 p. ; col. Ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 741.5 STI g c.1 2022110020
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