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1) American Revolution: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #22: Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.
Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #22: Revolutionary War on Wednesday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to live in colonial times? Why did the stamp Act...
Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #22: Revolutionary War on Wednesday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to live in colonial times? Why did the stamp Act...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xxii, 233 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of nonfiction writings documents encounters with Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis, the challenges faced by the author when "Fight Club" was made into a movie, the lives of submariners, and the violent experiences of college wrestlers.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
117 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aurora, a young explorer, introduces the science and characteristics of volcanoes, discussing lava, tetonic plates, the creation of new land masses, and magma vents.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, Connor writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating; of old loves and new; and through it all, of writing as a means of finding the shortest distance between two lines: hope. With language that distills insight from anecdote...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world. To live this way is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary."--...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last several years by prominent and emerging writers. Editors Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold situate this anthology within the ongoing work of resistance-to genre...
Author
Publisher
Conundrum Press, a division of Samizdat Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
84 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heading Home begins with Peter Anderson's dharma-bum passion for the road, which leads him through the mountains and deserts of the American West, and eventually lands him in an eccentric end-of-the-road town fill of mystics, misfits, and mountain dwellers. This book is a gathering of "field notes"--observations, recollections, and stories along the way, where home is understood as a work in progress and the way is a road that never ends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part of the bestselling Jedi Path series by Daniel Wallace, Star Wars®: Smuggler's Guide reveals previously untold stories of the galaxy's underworld. Recovered from a strongbox on the Millennium Falcon, this guide started as a simple logbook with a piece of valuable information.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resiliant creatures--the butterfly--shedding light on the role that [it plays] in our ecosystem and in our human lives"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this ... portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into [an] ... exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another"--
Author
Series
Northern region volume Vol. 1
Publisher
J.V. Publications
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
508 pages maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the northern region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 150 town histories from Routt, Moffat, Larimer, Grand, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. To guide readers to various sites, Jessen also provides 60 detailed maps and helpful...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The @1bike1world Instagram sensation shares the full story of his life-changing relationship with his rescue cat, Nala, and their inspiring bicycle journeys through the refugee camps, remarkable terrains and animal shelters of the world.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1962
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.
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