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Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of Nasa
SUE BRADFORD EDWARDS · ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Hidden Human Computersdiscusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.... |
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Gemina
Amie Kaufman · Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audiobook
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The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that critics are calling "out-of-this-world awesome." Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.... |
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Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
Jeannine Atkins · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A gorgeously written novel in verse about three girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists.Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered... |
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Faking Normal
Courtney C. Stevens · Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book
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An edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, as "a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves."Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard... |
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Pretty Fierce
Kieran Scott · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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An action-packed, edge-of-your-seat novel about a teen who, when backed into a corner, fights back, from the author of What Waits in the WoodsKaia has been on the run her whole life. The daughter of professional assassins, she knows danger-and she'll do anything to survive. After her parents... |
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Master Math for the SAT
Peterson's · Arco; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Master Math for the SAT is designed as a self-teaching text to prepare for the mathematics sections of the SAT. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a ten-question diagnostic test to guide the student’s preparation throughout the book. At the end of each chapter is a retest... |
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Max Helsing and the Beast of Bone Creek
Curtis Jobling · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Fans of Max Helsing and the Thirteenth Curse and the Wereworld series will love this action-packed ride, full of laughs, gore, and fantastic beasts! Between carrying on the monster-hunting tradition of his family, the van Helsings, and trying to stay out of trouble at school, Max is ready... |
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Ashes to Asheville
Sarah Dooley · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Two sisters take off on a wild road trip in this poignant tale for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a TreeAfter Mama Lacy's death, Fella was forced to move in with her grandmother, Mrs. Madison. The move brought Fella all sorts of comforts she wasn't used to at home, but it also... |
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The crimson skew
S E Grove · Viking
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning conclusion to S. E. Grove's New York Times-bestselling Mapmakers trilogy - a historical, fantastical adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman!It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing parents.... |
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The Thousandth Floor
Katharine McGee · Harper
Pages: 441
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestsellerNew York City as you've never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible - if you want it enough.Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation... |
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Mars One
Jonathan Maberry · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover
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Go on the adventure of a lifetime with a teen and his family after they are selected to colonize Mars in this thrilling new novel from multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry.Tristan has known that he and his family were going to be on the first mission to colonize Mars... |
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Race: A History Beyond Black and White
Marc Aronson · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those... |
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Avalanche
Melinda Braun · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Two groups of teens - those waiting to be saved and those doing the saving - are in a race against time and a battle against Mother Nature after an avalanche traps them in an isolated cabin in this chilling novel."I promise it'll be a weekend you'll never forget." A trip like... |
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Run
Kody Keplinger · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who's not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never... |
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The Crown's Game
Evelyn Skye · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 399
Format: Print book
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"Gorgeous and richly imagined." - Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series"Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance." - Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the AshesPerfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Red Queen,... |
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