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Are You Misusing Other People's Words?

Barbara Francis · Enslow Pub Inc

Understand what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. While plagiarism has been a problem since the invention of the printing press, today the Internet had made copying and cheating easier than ever. Author Barbara Francis describes ways that students can avoid plagiarism in their own work...
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Space Exploration: Science, Technology, Engineering

Wil Mara · Childrens Pr

Some of today's most fascinating careers revolve around the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). With this exciting new series, readers can get a close look at how people in these careers are helping to build our future. They will also discover how workers have...
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The Grimm Conclusion

Adam Gidwitz · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim. Cinderellas stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds. Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half. And in a tale called The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Yes, the sausage talks. Okay,...
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Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2

Michael Buckley · Houghton Mifflin, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the first book of Michael Buckley's Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including...
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Stem Jobs in Food and Nutrition

Jane Katirgis · Rourke Educational Media
Format:  Book : Elementary and junior high school : EnglishView all editions and formats

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Flygirl

Sherri L Smith · Speak
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys.All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World...
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What was the Underground Railroad?

Yona Zeldis McDonough; Lauren Mortimer · Grosset & Dunlap
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

"No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls...
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Pamela S Turner · Charlesbridge
Pages: 236
Format: Print book

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival...
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Sons of Sparta: A Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery

Jeffrey Siger · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition

Did the warriors of ancient Sparta simply vanish without a trace along with their city, or did they find sanctuary at the tip of the mountainous Peloponnese? That stark, unforgiving region's roots today run deep with a history of pirates, highwaymen, and neighbors ferociously repelling...
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Breaking Beautiful

Jennifer Shaw Wolf · Walker Childrens; Reprint edition

Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident-including her memory of the event. She doesn't remember driving on the cliff road. She doesn't recall jumping from the truck just before Trip lost control. As their small town mourns his death,...
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