Boris Kulikov
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
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Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet-- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
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Little Scientists
OBD National Inventors Month (MAY) - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Thinking Like A Scientist
OBD National Inventors Month (MAY) - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Thinking Like A Scientist
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In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
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Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
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For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
7) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
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Isaac Newton was not only brilliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, that places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
11) Max's words
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When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
13) Albert Einstein
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
14) Max's math
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Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch.
15) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
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English
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Readers will learn about the dark side of a woman and her devotion to science--the politics of science, her depression, and the drive to succeed. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a woman in a field dominated by men.
16) Max's castle
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When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.
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As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.
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"Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
Shows Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity -- including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.
19) Max's dragon
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Max books (Kate Banks) volume 2
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Many unusual and unexpected things happen while Max plays with his invisible dragon.
20) Charles Darwin
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Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection.