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Coding to Create and Communicate

Heather Lyons · Lerner Publications
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

How do you use computers? We can use computers to talk with other people, play games, and be creative. Discover how code tells computers when to send and receive messages, and learn how computer programs can help us create and share stories, music, and pictures. Then use your new knowledge...
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The Byte-Sized World of Technology

MELVIN BERGER · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Did you know more people have cell phones than toothbrushes? That Google answers about a billion questions a day? Or that Alexander Graham Bell wanted the standard telephone greeting to be "Ahoy"?Discover these incredible facts and more in the next Fact Attack book, all about...
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Fly Guy's Big Family

Tedd Arnold · Cartwheel Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In the latest installment of Tedd Arnold's New York Times bestselling Fly Guy series, Fly Guy misses his family. So when Fly Guy's not looking, Buzz plans him a surprise party and invites his whole family-including all his brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and mother and father....
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The Simple Science of Magnets

Emily James · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Magnets have amazing power to make things move. But how do they work? What are they used for? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more through easy-to-read text and vivid photographs. An experiment rounds out the book and provides a hands-on learning experience to encourage...
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Foxes

Kate Riggs · Creative Education
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

From flightless, long-legged ostriches to winged rays, and from elusive, long-tailed snow leopards to wily foxes, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. This popular and newly expanded series continues traveling the planet to study these and other fascinating mammals, birds, reptiles,...
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Surf's Up

Kwame Alexander · NorthSouth Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Surf's up! Not yet, Dude! Books are boring! Not this one! Bro and Dude have very different ideas about how to spend the day at the beach. But as Bro continues to gasp and cheer as he reads his book (Moby Dick) , Dude can't help but get curious. Before you can shout 'Surf's up!' both frogs...
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Nikki Grimes

Chris Bowman · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Nikki Grimes is a proud Coretta Scott King Award winner. She has always been intentional about focusing her novels and poetry on the experiences of African Americans just like her. Young readers will get to know a writer who cares about their ability to relate as much as their ability to read.
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The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

Dan Metcalf · Darby Creek Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Library Binding

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Lady Viola Kirton, the famous treasure hunter, is on the trail of a legendary Roman eagle. But she wants to sell it, and Lottie Lipton knows it belongs in a museum. Can Lottie win the race to find...
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Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe

Deborah Blumenthal · Little Bee Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A beautiful picture book about Ann Cole Lowe, a little-known African-American fashion designer who battled personal and social adversity in order to pursue her passion of making beautiful gowns and went on to become one of society's top designers.Wisps of cloth would fall from their...
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Super Turbo vs. the Flying Ninja Squirrels

Lee Kirby · Little Simon
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

He's not just the class pet hamster, he's SUPER TURBO! In this second book, Super Turbo battles flying ninja squirrels who threaten to take over the school!You know Turbo as the crime-fighting hamster from the Captain Awesome books. But ever wonder what actually goes on when the last...
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The Antlered Ship

Dashka Slater · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

An inquisitive fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons in this enchanting tale of friendship and adventure.Marco the fox has a lot of questions, like: how deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea? And why do birds have such lizardy feet? But none of the other...
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Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letters from Children Around the World

Pope Francis · Loyola Press
Pages: 76
Format: Print book

If you could ask Pope Francis one question, what would it be? Children have questions and struggles just like adults, but rarely are they given the chance to voice their concerns and ask the big questions resting deep in their hearts. In Dear Pope Francis, Pope Francis gives them that chance...
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Groundhog Day

Rachel A. Koestler-Grack · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

A groundhog named Phil is possibly the most sought-after meteorologist on February 2nd. Many people wait for his forecast to know how long winter might last. If he sees his shadow, the season will likely drag on for six more weeks. This title introduces beginning readers to an unusual weather-prediction...
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Jokes for Minecrafters: Booby Traps, Bombs, Boo-Boos, and More

Michele C. Hollow · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Jokes for Minecrafters is the first book in the new Jokes for Minecrafters series, which celebrates the humor in Minecraft from skeleton mobs to zombie pigmen. Be prepared to laugh! No ghast or blaze is safe from being the punch line of these jokes!Inside you will find hilarious jokes such...
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Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer

Diane Stanley · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

From nonfiction stars Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland comes a beautifully illustrated biography of Ada Lovelace, who is known as the first computer programmer.Two hundred years ago, a daughter was born to the famous poet, Lord Byron, and his mathematical wife, Annabella. Like her father,...
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