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Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

Kimberley Veness · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story. Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative - and sometimes bizarre - farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style...
 
 
Who Built That? Bridges: An Introduction to Ten Great Bridges and Their Designers

Didier Cornille · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

In this latest addition to his popular Who Built That? series, Didier Cornille presents ten of the most important bridges in the world, from the Brooklyn to the Golden Gate; from the first in cast iron to the longest in concrete; from small footbridges to the tallest in the world. Cornille...
 
 
Sleeping Beauty

Cynthia Rylant · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Many see Time as a friend and many see Time as a foe.But for a sleeping beauty, Time was a promise. Born into royalty and surrounded by fairy godmothers, a sweet princess seems destined for a blissful life. But when a bitter fairy casts a curse, it will take true friends and true love to save...
 
 
The Explorer

Katherine Rundell · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes.Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies...
 
 
Debbie the Duckling Fairy

Daisy Meadows · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Farm animal antics!Rachel and Kirsty are visiting beautiful Greenfields Farm. They've been given the very special job of taking care of all the baby animals that live there. But the farm is not as peaceful as it seems . . . The ducklings are barking, the lambs are meowing, and the foals...
 
 
Cleopatra in Space 3: Secret of the Time Tablets

Mike Maihack · Graphix
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Cleo and her friends journey from Yasiro Academy to the city of Hykosis, where some of the most notorious thieves and assassins live. They're in search of information about the time tablets that could determine Cleo's fate -- whether she wants them to or not. But the group is separated...
 
 
Music In My Heart: My Journey with Melody

Erin Falligant · Amer Girl Pub
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

What would it be like if a girl suddenly found herself in Melody Ellison's world in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s? Together, she and Melody could speak up about fairness, join a demonstration, volunteer with a civil rights group, or even use her voice to sing backup...
 
 
The Battle of the Labyrinth

Rick Riordan · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover

As an incoming freshman, Percy isn't expecting his high school orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running...
 
 
DK Eyewitness Books: Planets (Library Edition)

Dorling Kindersley, Inc. · DK Publishing
Pages: 72
Format: Print book

A visual and informative guide to our solar system with the most recent photographs from NASA and ESA, in the DK Eyewitness Books format.Blast off into space and be an eyewitness to our solar system in DK Eyewitness Books: Planets.From Mercury to Neptune and beyond, get an up-close view...
 
 
Amazing Makerspace Diy Movers

Kristina Holzweiss · Children's Press
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Movement is a key part of many inventions. In this book, readers will discover the science behind movement by building their own carousel, speedboat, and solar-powered fan. They will find out how different types of energy work and which forces affect moving objects. They will also learn...
 
 
Hidden in the Haunted School

Gertrude Chandler Warner · Albert Whitman
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The old abandoned school in Silver City is being fixed up as an art center and the Boxcar Children volunteer to help clean up the place. But the other volunteers are scared by the spooky goings-on in the school -- doors lock by themselves, and chalkboard messages appear out of nowhere!...
 
 
Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel

Chris Grabenstein · Random House
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

From Chris Grabenstein, the bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and co-author with James Patterson of I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters, comes a hilarious illustrated series about all the wacky things that happen when you live in a motel! Eleven-year-old...
 
 
Nightfall

SHANNON MESSENGER · Aladdin
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they've seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. The Neverseen...
 
 
Swing it, Sunny

Jennifer L. Holm · Graphix
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.Not only is the whole middle...
 
 
Full of Beans

Jennifer L Holm · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award Five Starred Reviews A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means "locals")...