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Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France
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John Fleischman · 96 pages
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science. At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, ta
The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs
Joanna Cole · 30 pages
Ralphie's sick and can't host the Frizzle News Network TV show on health--until Ms. Frizzle and the gang travel inside his bloodstream to learn how the human body fights germs.
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne · 56 pages
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
Chris Barton
The story of Joe and Bob Switzer who experimented with ultraviolet lights and fluorescent paints and invented a new kind of color called Day-Glo.
The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains: A Book About Food Chains
Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
A class trip to the beach becomes an underwater lesson about food chains when Arnold and Keesha are challenged to discover what a tuna fish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common.
The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry
Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
The Magic School Bus Sees Stars: A Book About Stars
Joanna Cole, Nancy White, Bruce Degen, Noel MacNeal · 32 pages
A book about stars, from the animated television series on the Learning Channel.
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow
Bruce Degen · 32 pages
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm: A Book About Weather
Joanna Cole, Nancy White, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
One hot muggy day, a new superhero appears in Ms. Frizzle's classroom-it's Weatherman! Actually, it's only Ralphie pretending he has superpowers and can make a huge thunderstorm that would cool things off fast. The kids think Ralphie has flipped out, but Ms. Frizzle is excited about the idea of making weather. Time for a field trip in the Magic School Bus! The bus becomes a flying weather station
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Thomas Hager · 340 pages
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. It was sulfa, the first synthetic antibiotic. Science writer Hager chronicles the history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.--but even more, it
Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes
Nicola Davies
There are living things so tiny millions could fit on a dot. Although they are invisible, they are everywhere and they multiply very quickly. They are vital for life on earth, and do all sorts of things – from giving us a cold and making yoghurt to wearing down mountains and helping to make the air we breathe. With charming illustrations by Emily Sutton, this friendly, clever book by Nicola Davies
You Are Stardust
Elin Kelsey · 32 pages
Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they are connected to the natural world around them.
Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving
Laurie Halse Anderson · 40 pages
Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird: A True Story
Stephanie Spinner
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
David J. Smith · 40 pages
Compares large, complicated numerical concepts with smaller-scale facsimiles to examine such statistics as the size of the Milky Way, the history of human population, and the history of Earth.
Those Rebels, John and Tom
Barbara Kerley
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very different. John was short and stout. Tom was tall and lean. John was argumentative and blunt. Tom was soft-spoken and polite. John sometimes got along with almost no one. Tom got along with just about everyone. But these two very different gentlemen did have two things in common: they both cared deeply about the American colonies, and neither cared much fo
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
E.J. Wagner · 250 pages
From autopsies to zoology, how Holmes eliminated the impossible This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic autopsies evolved from anatomical dissection, the huge advances in blood chemistry and poison detectio
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder
Mark Cassino, Jon Nelson · 33 pages
The Cloud Book
Tomie dePaola · 31 pages
Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes.
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson · 32 pages
Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
George Washington
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 55 pages
A simple biography of Washington, telling of the major events in his life and stressing the upbringing that endowed him with the qualities of leadership.