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830L
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"How does our government actually work? Discover everything you need to know about our democratic republic! This easy-to-read guide explains the history of our government, the responsibilities of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, ad how it all works together to make our nation run!"--Back cover.
2) Electricity
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Lexile Measure
1070L
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Eyewitness: Electricity presents the story of electricity - from the earliest discoveries to the technologies of today - explaining how our eyes receive light rays and turn them into electrical signals, how the chemicals in batteries work, how the invention of electric motors allowed for the creation of household appliances, what happens when you tune in the radio, and more.
3) World War I
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Provides an eyewitness account of the war that devastated Europe, from the assassination of an archduke to the killing fields of France. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon...
4) Denmark
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"Readers explore the Kingdom of Denmark in this detailed guide to what life is like in this Scandinavian country. The comprehensive text has been updated to include the most recent statistics concerning Danish demographics and life in Denmark, as well as a thorough overview of current events in the kingdom. Equipped with this knowledge, readers are able to see how the past and present both play a part in a nation's culture. As they discover recipes,...
5) Reptile
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Lexile Measure
1160L
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Become an eyewitness to how reptiles sense the world, move and use camouflage in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of these scaly creatures. Children will be mesmerized by the many different types of reptile species, from small pets to large crocodiles.
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"The canals of Amsterdam may be the most famous feature of the Netherlands, but there is much more to explore in this European nation, which has a history that stretches back centuries into the past. Readers discover this as they explore focused chapters that support social studies curriculum topics, including geography, history, economics, and government. In addition, other chapters provide a detailed look at unique elements of Dutch culture, including...
9) Morocco
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"The North African nation of Morocco has an incredibly rich culture, and readers explore the many aspects of that culture in this compelling and comprehensive guide. As readers navigate chapters that highlight topics such as the environment, history, and arts of Morocco, they are invited to think critically about how cultures develop over centuries and what factors affect that development. They are also invited to explore the concept of global citizenship...
10) South Africa
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"The nation of South Africa has been through its share of struggles. From British colonialism to the brutal system of apartheid, South Africans-especially Black South Africans-throughout history have worked hard to build and hold on to their unique culture in challenging times. Readers explore both the history and present cultural environment of South Africa in this carefully updated guide to Africa's southernmost nation. Fact boxes, full-color photographs,...
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Lexile Measure
1410L
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This novel tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The magic realist style and thematic substance of this novel established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s that was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American), and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard)...
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Ayla continues on her journey to find others like herself and also in search of love. Driven by her intelligence, curiosity and destiny she goes where the Clan would never have dared go and meets a hostile world of awesome mystery, glacial cold, terrifying beasts and intense loneliness where survival is a constant battle. This is where she rescues a young man named Jondalar, the first of the Others she has seen. Jondalar teaches her the meaning of...
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No longer alone, Ayla leaves the Valley of Horses that has become her home. Travelling with her is Jondalar, the handsome young man she has nursed back to health and come to love. Together, they embark on a journey that will lad them to the Mamutoi: the Mammoth Hunters. But as she gradually settles into this new life amongst a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to the magnetic Ranec, their master-carver....
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640L
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Kids of all ages will enjoy a fun and spooky exploration as a trickster skeleton beckons readers from room to room to I Spy for mice, spiders, candles, bats, jack-o'-lanterns, bones, and so much more! From its rickety gate to its cobwebbed attic, this haunted house contains 13 spooky and spectacular photographs. There is a spooky graveyard, a mysterious laboratory, a garden of ghoulies -- each page has rhyming puzzles with eerie objects to find. It's...
16) The fountainhead
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The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, The Fountainhead is the story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with the beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. In his fight for success, he first discovers, then rejects, the seductive power of fame and money, finding that in the end, creative genius...
