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Food Fight!: A Mouthwatering History of Who Ate What and Why Through the Ages

Tanya Steel · National Geographic Children's Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Grab your knife and fork and get ready to dig in to human history through the lens of food and the struggle to acquire it with award-winning celebrity food editor and author Tanya Steel. This book includes 30 kid-tested and approved recipes inside!Did you know that Christopher Columbus...
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The Official Force Training Manual

Arie Kaplan · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

The official training manual for using the Force, complete with a Rey minifigure! This box is two inches taller than the LEGO(R) Star Wars Stormtrooper Training Manual, is narrated by Rey herself, and features every notable Force user from Kylo Ren to Qui-Gon Jinn. With tons of info...
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The Colorful World of Dinosaurs

Matt Sewell · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

Did you know that Argentinosaurus was as heavy as a herd of elephants? That Mosasaurus was three times the length of a great white shark? That Microraptor was the size of a pigeon but with four wings? This magnificent book imagines dinosaurs as they might well have been, based on recent...
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Worlds Apart

James Riley · Aladdin
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves - which was called a "fast-paced, action-packed tale" by School Library Journal...
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What Would She Do?: 25 True Stories of Trailblazing Rebel Women

KAY WOODWARD · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

From historic world leaders to brilliant scientists, artists, and modern-day pioneers, What Would She Do? shares twenty-five incredible women's stories that educate and empower. Learn about the remarkable achievements and attitudes of feminist trailblazers such as Cleopatra, Amelia...
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Leaf Litter Critters

Leslie Bulion · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Have fun on this poetic tour through the leaf litter layer and dig into the fascinating facts about the tiny critters who live there. Nineteen poems in a variety of verse forms with accompanying science notes take readers on a decomposer safari through the "brown food web," from...
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Write Your Own Haiku for Kids: Write Poetry in the Japanese Tradition - Easy Step-by-Step Instructions to Compose Simple Poems

Patricia Donegan · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku - elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy...
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Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion

Jessica Tatiana Long · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

The top Paralympic swimmer in the world, Jessica Long delivers an inspirational photographic memoir. Born in Siberia with fibular hemimelia, Jessica Long was adopted from a Russian orphanage at thirteen months old and has since become the second most decorated U.S. Paralympic athlete of all time....
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After Life: Ways We Think About Death

Merrie-Ellen Wilcox · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover

Why do we die? Why can't we live forever? What happens to us after death? Moving between science and culture, After Life: Ways We Think About Death takes a straightforward look at these and other questions long taboo in our society. By showing the fascinating, diverse ways in which...
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Why Do I Sneeze?

Madeline Tyler · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Is it the cat, a dandelion, or just a common cold? Fun illustrations and entertaining text help give kids a clear understanding of the everyday mechanisms required to create a sneeze. Readers will also love the everyday trivia pages that provide weird and wonderful facts about sneezing.
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