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• Moonshot

  the Flight of Apollo 11

  Floca, Brian

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  Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bomb

  the Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

  Sheinkin, Steve

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  Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Way Things Work

  Macaulay, David

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  Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.

• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

  Gerstein, Mordicai

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  A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

• I Am Malala

  How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?

  the Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

  Stone, Tanya Lee

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  An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pop!

  the Invention of Bubble Gum

  McCarthy, Meghan

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  With historical facts, the book tells the true story of how bubble gum was invented by Walter Diemer, who was an accountant at the Fleer Corporation, a factory in Philadelphia, in the late 1920s.

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

  Kamkwamba, William, 1987- ,

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  An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.

• The Day-Glo Brothers

  the True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-new Colors

  Barton, Chris

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  A discovery that made the world a brighter place!

• How Much Is a Million?

  Schwartz, David M.

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  Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.

• The Right Word

  Roget and His Thesaurus

  Bryant, Jen, 1960-

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  For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn?t long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn?t write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hidden Figures

  the True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

  Shetterly, Margot Lee,

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  Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.

• Actual Size

  Jenkins, Steve, 1952-2021

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  Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.

• We Are the Ship

  the Story of Negro League Baseball

  Nelson, Kadir

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  Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mesmerized

  How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France

  Rockliff, Mara

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  A whimsical depiction of a true moment in history describes how the innovative American Founding Father used the scientific method to discern the practices of a famous Parisian magician.

• Gordon Parks

  How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  Presents the life and accomplishments of the first black director in Hollywood who became the first African American photographer for Life magazine.

• Finding Winnie

  the True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

  Mattick, Lindsay,

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  A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trombone Shorty

  Andrews, Troy

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  Hailing from the Trem ̌neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad News for Outlaws

  the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall

  Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

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  This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.

• Amelia Lost

  the Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

  Fleming, Candace

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  Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life - as a child, a woman, and a pilot - and describes the search for her missing plane.