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Weird but True! 2: 300 Outrageous Facts

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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.

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The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor

Joanna Cole · 48 pages

Wowee! A class trip to the ocean! Finally, the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are going on an ordinary field trip, just like everyone else. But when the Friz drives onto the beach, across the sand, and straight into the ocean water without stopping, the kids know that they have once again embarked on one of Ms. Frizzle's crazy class trips.

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The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders

Tracey West, Joanna Cole · 32 pages

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The Magic School Bus Meets The Rot Squad: A Book About Decomposition

Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 35 pages

In this simplified series, Ms. Frizzle and her students embark on numerous entertaining scientific journeys. The books are based on the PBS television series.

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The Search For The Missing Bones

Eva Moore · 76 pages

Ms. Frizzle and her class go to the Hugh Mann Costume Company to track down the missing bones for their skeleton costumes.

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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

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The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats

Patricia Relf · 32 pages

Oh, no! Wanda's best friend, Bella the bullfrog, is missing. The class wants to help look for her. Ms. Frizzle says, "The best way to find a frog is to be a frog!" So, the kids take a ride on the Magic School Bus. Join them as they shrink to frog size and learn all about animal habitats!

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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.

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The Magic School Bus in the Arctic: A Book About Heat: A Book About Heat

Anne Schreiber, Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 32 pages

The Magic School Bus slides into the icy arctic to learn why people, animals, and things lose heat and how they preserve it--from house insulation to walrus blubber!

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The Magic School Bus Gets Ants In Its Pants: A Book About Ants

Linda Ward Beech, Joanna Cole · 32 pages

Ms. Frizzle's class has to create a project for the school science fair. But they need the perfect idea! When Keesha brings an ant to the classroom, the kids decide to make a movie about ants. They'll make Keesha's ant a star! But Keesha's ant disappears, and the kids have no choice but to follow...all the way into an anthill. And surprise! The anthill is crawling with activity! Come along on a

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Quidditch Through the Ages

J.K. Rowling · 60 pages

A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanterers have meat cleavers on their robes.

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Good Eats: The Early Years

Alton Brown · 396 pages

Award-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats, goes from screen to page with this classic cookbook from Alton Brown, packed with all the tidbits, tricks, and science found in the show’s first six seasons.

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The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About The Water Cycle

Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole · 32 pages

Ms. Frizzle's class is learning all about water. And when Wanda suggests they take a trip to Waterland, Ms Frizzle gets that funny look in her eyes. But instead of taking her class to the water theme park, she takes them on a seriously wet and wild ride - through the water cycle! Join the class as they evaporate, condense, rain, and make their way back to the ocean...only to evaporate all over aga

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · 320 pages

*A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything* Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But

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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.

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The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder

Mark Cassino, Jon Nelson · 33 pages

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On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 112 pages

Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.

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The Dumbest Idea Ever!

Jimmy Gownley · 240 pages

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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

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The Truth about Poop

Susan E. Goodman · 40 pages

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Island: A Story of the Galápagos

Jason Chin · 40 pages

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The Science of Discworld

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen · 400 pages

In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. Inte

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