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Best Shot in the West

The Adventures of Nat Love

by MCKISSACK, Patricia C. & McKissack, Frederick L.

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Ubiquitous

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

by Sidman, Joyce

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems . . .Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to ...

An Eye for Color

The Story of Josef Albers

by Wing, Natasha

As a child, Josef Albers loved to watch his handyman father paint houses.When Josef grew up and became an artist, he reduced each image to its simplest shapes,...

Duel!

Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words

by Fradin, Dennis Brindell

In the early morning hours of July 11, 1804, two men stood facing each other on a New Jersey cliff side. One was the U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, and the o...

When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm

A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long before Dinosaurs

by Bonner, Hannah

Take a fun, fact-filled trip back to Earth as it was 430 million years ago. Then, watch as continents drift and oceans take shape. Watch out (!) as fish get to...

Odd Boy Out

Young Albert Einstein

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Strange Mr. Satie

by Anderson, M. T.

Introduces the life of the French composer, Erik Satie, who spent his entire career challenging established conventions in music.

Keeper of the Doves

by Byars, Betsy

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father contin...

What Charlie Heard

by Gerstein, Mordicai

Describes the life of American composer Charles Ives, who wrote music which expressed all the sounds he heard in the world, but which was not well received dur...

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin

by Giblin, James & Dooling, Michael

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.