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A life-changing book that uses new research to challenge old beliefs about belonging.
A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture. Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy....
2) Zebras
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English
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"This revised edition surveys key aspects of zebras, describing these striped African horses' appearance, behaviors, and habitats. A folk tale explains how zebras' stripes appeared on their coats." -- Provided by publisher.
3) Penguins
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Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Penguin lovers and young nonfiction fans will enjoy following one penguin couple through their efforts to raise a family of chicks in this engaging Step into Reading Science Reader. Did you know that penguins have feathers but don't fly? Or that their eggs are guarded by the daddy penguin? Or that they dive in the ocean for their food? Discover these facts and more, along with brilliant photographs of chinstrap penguins in Antarctica, in this captivating...
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
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English
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"This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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33 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Nonfiction picture book explores the form, color, pattern, and nature of frogs.
"Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, color, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal. Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features--what's...
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2014
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336 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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2018.
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English
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"A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege--but...
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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"Through a combination of photographs and illustrations, this picture book will tell the story of the discovery of this new dinosaur, while weaving in exciting facts about what life was like for this brand new species that doesn't even have an official name yet! Chock-full of back matter like a glossary, a dinosaur time period chart, and a gatefold and/or inside jacket poster of the Titanosaur cast, kids of all ages will devour this book. Additionally,...
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Breakfast varies from country to country, but it's how all children begin their day. Explore the meals of twelve countries in this playful approach to the world! From Australia to India to the USA, come travel around the world at dawn. Children everywhere are waking up to breakfast. In Japan, students eat soured soybeans called natto. In Brazil, even kids drink coffee--with lots of milk! With rhythm and rhymes and bold, graphic art, Pancakes to Parathas...
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
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256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"-- Provided by publisher.
This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco (illustrator of the Percy Jackson series) is a must-have for space fans, classrooms,...
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W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Before he was an HGTV star, Chip Gaines was a serial entrepreneur always ready for the next challenge. In this book, he relives some of his craziest antics and lessons he has learned.
Gaines is a TV star, renovation expert, author, and husband and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. He's also a serial entrepreneur always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out as planned. His mentors taught him to never give up and his family showed...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear"-- Provided by publisher.
"The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents...and others,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
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230 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
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What on Earth Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
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English
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"How was our universe made from a tiny speck of energy? Where did the first trees, plants, animals and humans come from? What happened to the dinosaurs? What was so miserable about medieval times? How were railroads and electricity invented? What are the perils of global warming? You might have many big questions about our planet, life and people. Embark on an entertaining journey across millennia and continents with this captivating book by Christopher...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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During Fire Safety Day, twin siblings who both want to be firefighters learn all about different types of firefighters, from those who fight forest fires to those who work at airports to help with airplane emergencies.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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vii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast and Dancing with the Stars favorite Laurie Hernandez shares her story in her own words in this debut book for fans of all ages. At sixteen years old, Laurie Hernandez has already made many of her dreams come true--and yet it's only the beginning for this highly accomplished athlete. A Latina Jersey girl, Laurie saw her life take a dramatic turn last summer when she was chosen to be a part of the 2016 US Olympic gymnastics...
20) Explore fossils!
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Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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92 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Introduces readers to the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Through hands-on projects, vocabulary boxes, and high-interest content, children discover how fossils form and learn about the landscape and the plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists use radiometric dating to test these fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed...
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