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The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
Harry Kellar was a world-famous magician in his time, but he is now all but forgotten. This fascinating account examines his life and magic tricks, and is illustrated with numerous photos and full-color copies of the gorgeous posters that promoted his performances.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9781590788653
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
On a cold morning in December 1917, a ship filled with munitions collided with another vessel in Halifax Harbor. The resulting explosion flattened everything within a half-mile radius and resulted in more than 2,000 deaths. Walker follows several young people who lived through the disaster and chronicles the rescue efforts in a story that is both affecting and unbelieveable.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780805089455
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Bomb: The Race to Build- and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents.- Nonfiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2020, Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9781596434875
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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
This biography shows how Dickens's childhood experiences with poverty shaped his writing and career by showing the parallels between his life and plots. It gives particular emphasis to how he used his wealth, fame, and platform to help England's neediest people. Including many period illustrations, the text brings alive to horrors of the workhouse and shows readers why Dickens was so popular in his time and why he continues to be read and studied.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780547395746
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Chuck Close Face Book
Chuck Close Face Book is a deceptively simple book, less in-depth biography than his life as a painter. Close overcame physical illness to become an inspiration for artists; the sections on his creative process and technique will give teen artists insight and ideas for their own craft.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9781419701634
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Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure
Trapped by the flash freeze of a surprise early Arctic winter in 1897, 265 sailors with dwindling supplies and six months of plunging temperatures ahead faced almost certain death. Desperate to save them, the United States government hatched a daring plan that involved sending three men into brutal weather conditions, on foot, on a journey of more than 1500 miles...but they had to be the right three men.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780763650803
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
Starting in prehistoric times and continuing to today this book traces the history and biology of tuberculosis. In addition to being a medical history of the disease and the continuing search for a cure, it seamlessly weaves in the social history of the TB and its victims.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780544455948
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The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity
Man may never set foot on the red planet known as Mars. Steven Squyres understood that a geologist was exactly what space exploration needed and set out to convince NASA to send a robotic geologist to Mars. In 2003, after eight years, he and his team sent two little rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, off on an adventure that was expected to last, at best, for three months. Nine years later Opportunity is still travelling across the surface sending photos back to earth.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780547478814
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Moonbird is a fascinating look at the life of rufa red knots in general and B95, one long-lived and tough little bird in particular, and the worldwide efforts to understand and save this subspecies of bird from extinction.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780374304683
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Equally reviled and revered--often by the same people--Steve Jobs, the man who operated from his own "reality distortion field," was an extraordinary "tweaker" who transcended the visionary to perfect the simple and transform the world as we know it. -
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
In this well-written and readable biography, readers are given special insight into the insular and unique world of Dr. Temple Grandin. Grandin, who throughout her career in animal science, has revolutionized the livestock industry, was born with autism in 1947 in a world that didn't yet have a name for the disorder.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780547443157
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Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World
Two men stumbled upon human remains along the Columbia River near Kennewick Washington. Author, Sally Walker presents the scientific research process and discoveries that have been made since 1996 when those 9,000 year-old remains, of what is now known as Kennewick Man, were uncovered.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9780761374572
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Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
This moving, exciting history of the 1912 disaster reads like an action movie with cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. The additional material, ranging from the only surviving photos of the inside of the boat during its journey to diagrams and timelines to accounts of what happened to the survivors afterwards, is exhaustive and meticulously researched.
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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Focusing on the experiences of four young people who were at the center of a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement, this is the story of 4,000 black children and teenagers who voluntarily went to jail between May 2 and May 11, 1963. In the end, the children succeeded where adults had failed, and one of the most racially violent cities in America was desegregated.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2013
- ISBN: 9781561456277