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What can be as hideous as they are delicious? Your snacks!
Learn how to create a variety of snack foods that are both repulsive and tasty. Cook up dishes like dripping zombie skin, booger sticks, and bulging cake eyeballs. Creating snacks has never been so much fun―or so gross!
This delightfully disgusting cookbook series will make budding chefs squeal with happy horror as they prepare gross, spooky, yet delicious recipes. Clear step-by-step instructions...
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2023.
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"Imagine over three million square miles of sand dunes that are as tall as a ten-story building. That place is real -- it's the Sahara Desert! Vast, yes! And home to fascinating creatures such as ostriches and fennec foxes as well as amazing plant life. Readers will also learn about the famous trade routes of the past with caravans of up to 10,000 camels, European explorers to the region (some very unlucky ones), and native populations like the Imazighen"--...
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2023.
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"In 1947, an unusual object crashed in the New Mexico desert and was recovered by the Roswell Army Air Field officers. People everywhere began to speculate what the object could be. Could it possibly be a flying saucer? Would that be proof of aliens and life beyond Earth? Even decades later, some people still believe that the Roswell Incident is the most famous UFO sighting ever. Still, those who worked at the airfield insist it was just a weather...
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Making of the nuclear age volume 1
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Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer...
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2024.
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"This visually stunning portrait of Black photographer Roy DeCarava, a child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, takes readers through 1940s Harlem where beauty is everywhere as he immortalizes and documents the lives of ordinary Black people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations."--
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"This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
10) The Water Walker
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"This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all of the Great Lakes from the four salt waters - or oceans - all the way to Lake Superior. The water walks are full of challenges, and by her example...
11) Spare parts: the true story of four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and an impossible dream
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2023.
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"The young readers' edition of the bestselling adult book of the same name"--
In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate...
13) Jaguar vs. skunk
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What would happen if a jaguar and a skunk met up and had a fight? Who do you think would win? Find out in the latest Who Would Win book.
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"From the creative force behind Circle Under Berry comes a deceptively simple picture book exploring sorting, comparatives, and quantifiers that teases the brain, twists expectations, and teaches basic ideas in unusual ways. A page-turner for first-time page-turners, this kaleidoscopic compendium shows young readers the infinite variability of perspective inherent in even our foundational concepts"--
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[2003]
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iv, 44 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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Introduces effigy mound sites, man-made hills shaped like animals usually used to bury the dead, that are found in five southern Wisconsin counties, and provides exercises in comparing, contrasting, and analyzing different mound groups.
16) What is NASA?
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[2019]
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107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken place since then. NASA has a rich history and still plays an important role in...
19) Tolerance
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Through various examples, children learn about tolerance and how to apply it to everyday life. At school, on the playground, and even at home, various situations are presented which teach readers about the importance of being tolerant of others. Additional features to aid comprehension include informative captions, a Think-About-It section, a table of contents, a glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author.
20) Dr. Seuss's ABC
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An entertaining introduction to the alphabet featuring such fantastic creatures as an ostrich oiling an orange owl and ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree.
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