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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed 21 people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the army, the navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up....
Author
Series
Race to the truth volume 3
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"--
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"CELEBRATE THE ABCs OF LGBTQIA+. An alphabet book that highlights and celebrates queer history in the United States from A to Z, presenting bold ideas for big thinkers in every letter! A is for abundant, always, ally, and alive. F is for family, friendship, fluid, and free. O is for optimists, opportunity, open, and outspoken"--
Author
Publisher
Grupo editoriale Mauri Spagnol S.p.A
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
¿Como nacieron el símbolo y la paloma de la paz? ¿Qué canciones son himnos del pacifismo? ¿Por qué los colegios celebran el día de la paz el 30 de enero? ¿Sabrías nombrar cnco monumentos por la paz? ¿Conoces la declaració universal de los derechos humanos? Encontrarás la respuestas todas estas preguntas en las páginas de este apasionante libro. Descubre anécdotas, momentos históricos curiosos y conceptos fundamentales sobre la paz....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water at Beach Haven, New Jersey--the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a war on sharks"--...
Author
Publisher
Ocean Sur
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban intelligence services, and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical figures and depicts the ensuing cat-and-mouse game in the midst...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La pequeña Otta y su mejor amigo Artemio, un perrito muy travieso, se aventuran en busca de El Tesoro de Huesos. Su viaje toma un rumbo inesperado cuando Arte se pierde en el Museo Nacional de Antropología y eso detona una persecución incansable. ¿Dónde está Arte? ¿Estará curioseando por las salas del museo? ¿Visitando a los xolos, sus antepasados de la época prehispánica? ¿O haciendo alguna de sus fechorías, perdido en las calles de...
11) Island witch
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious practices brought in by the British Colonizers, the villagers who once respected her father's craft have turned on the family. Yet, they all still seem to call on him whenever supernatural disturbances arise. Now someone-or something-is viciously seizing upon men in the jungle. But instead of enlisting Amara's father's...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book will expand the horizons of teen and pre-teen readers in an exciting and engaging way, by debating the Greatest of All Time in a variety of categories. Topics include the greatest athlete of all time, greatest band, greatest inventor, greatest scientist, greatest writer, greatest sci-fi franchise, and more"--
Who is the greatest athlete of all time? The greatest chess player? Inventor? Super hero squad? Volponi pairs up people in twenty-five...
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