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Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates-part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social...
3) A web of air
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
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In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
4) Space Ace
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Young readers will be exposed to figurative language, rhyming, and countless facts as they read these imaginative, inventive, original poems about space. This book is sure to encourage readers to explore the world beyond our own. With colorful, full-page illustrations, and adventurous language, readers won't want to stop reading until they've become a space ace!
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This collection gathers together nearly 330 tangrams, the best creations of both Chinese and Occidental puzzle devisers. Included are puzzles carefully selected from rare 19th-century books and some of the most inventive and imaginative inventions of Loyd and Dudeney. Tangrams range from the relatively easy to the difficult.
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This book provides 15 poems all about the wild world of outer space. Readers will be exposed to figurative language, rhyming, and countless facts about space as they read these imaginative, inventive, original poems. From trips to the moon to counting the stars, from meteors to aliens, this book is sure to encourage readers to explore the world beyond our own. With colorful, full-page illustrations, young readers will want to keep reading these creative...
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Read along with Disney! It's the first annual Invention Convention, and Belle can't wait to see the imaginative inventions in the town square! When Belle sees a crowd gathered around a blue ribbon-winning invention, she volunteers to help the inventor-a girl named Simone-demonstrate how her machine works. But when Simone's invention, a paper-making machine, starts spitting out paper uncontrollably, can Belle help her new friend fine a use for all...
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Emily of New Moon volume 3
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Emily makes a wish for Jimmy to be a man of great wisdom. Instead, a bolt of lightening strikes him, leaving him comatose on the side of the road. Emily is paralyzed with fear thinking that she has wished death upon her beloved cousin. But Jimmy wakens a genius. His life now careens into realms beyond even Emily’s fertile imagination; inventions, honours, worldly acclaim. When he meets Eve, his long lost love, his cup brimmeth over. TO BE CONTINUED......
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon.
A Newbery Honor book
A National Book Awards
10) Fever Crumb
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
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When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
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A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world's writers have been recording the future as it might exist-and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes "The Land Iron Clads" by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903-long before it...
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A history of the controversial attack sub traces the story of the submarine's invention, exploring how self-taught innovator John Philip Holland's obsession with the idea of controlled undersea navigation led to decades of skepticism, setbacks, and innovation.
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During a pandemic, racial reckoning, and social unrest, four Black middle school boys create an astonishing collection of imaginative stories that celebrate resilience, self-expression, and hope.
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and widespread social reckoning, four Black middle school boys from Beacon House, an after-school community program in Washington DC, create a compelling collection of imaginative,...
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Boredom, drudgery, with an occasional excitement brought about by food shortages or blackouts; the illnesses of a dying society devoid of imagination, inventiveness, even competence. At the apex of its soulless construct sit the powerful, cunningly wrestling for position, seeking control over a people who no longer care who controls their lives. And there is no Atlantis, waiting in the wings to provide guidance for those who have been slowly robbed...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
17) Tales from 2 A.M
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Nominated for the 2005 Minnesota Book Award: Best Short Story Collection
Two A.M.
A time when someone can't sleep.
The darkest time of the night.
These are tales for such times, from such times.
These tales will not let you will sleep soundly. They will not let you lie on the comfortable mattress that is your life. They will make you dream with your eyes wide open.
These are tales of vampires and vengeance, of biological engineering...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. In this companion to Volume I, published in fall 2013, acclaimed children's book illustrator Ian Wallace once again reinterprets the famous tales with luminous art, bringing Kipling to a new generation of young readers. Many of the tales are origin stories, explaining, for example, how an animal came to be, or the how the alphabet and writing began....
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An entertaining and erudite history that offers a fresh look at America's first founding father, the creation of his legend, and what it means for our nation and ourselves
George Washington's death on December 14, 1799, dealt a dreadful blow to public morale. For three decades, Americans had depended on his leadership to guide them through every trial. At the cusp of a new century, the fledgling nation, caught in another war (this time with its former...
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"B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak,creativity and joy. It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for...