By Steve Sheinkin
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the
military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and
the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
By Gordon Korman
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to
the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and
talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
By Doreen Rappaport
Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in
book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the
defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied
countries during World War II.
By Sally M. Walker
When
two ships collided in Halifax Harbour, on December 6, 1917, one of them
was full of munitions for World War I. The ensuing explosion,
aftershocks, and tsunami wrecked unbelievable devastation. It was the
largest explosion in the world until the atomic bomb was detonated in
World War II in 1945.
A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.
By J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dark Lord Sauron, an utterly evil and powerful being, is stirring
again after a long period of dormancy. He will soon dominate all of
Middle-earth if he is not stopped. The key to Sauron's defeat is Frodo,
nephew and heir to Bilbo Baggins--he has the One Ring into which Sauron
deposited much of his power. If the Ring is destroyed in the volcano at
the heart of Sauron's realm of Mordor, Sauron too will be destroyed.
By Jon Klassen
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
By Vandana Singh
In a small town in
northern India, three siblings await their father's youngest brother,
Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat eccentric.
By Erik Kraft
Twin brothers observe a year's worth of holidays in some very unusual ways.
By James Marshall
Relates two episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.
It's a Secret
By John Burningham
By John Burningham
Every night Marie-Elaine's cat, Malcolm, goes out, and every morning he
comes back in and sleeps. "Where do cats go at night?" the girl wonders.
So when she sees him at his cat door dressed to the nines, she begs to
come along. And amazingly, Malcolm agrees, as long as she puts on her
fancy clothes, gets small, and keeps it all a secret.
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