Robert Burleigh
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In the Pacific Ocean, a humpback whale finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen, and when a convoy of divers arrives to help the struggling humpback, a moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.
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"As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge.Edward Hopper's story is...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2013]
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"As a young girl, Henrietta Leavitt would gaze into the sky wondering about all the secrets it held. How far away were the stars? Was the sky really endless? Henrietta lived at a time when she was one of few girls in her college astronomy class. Later, she was only allowed to deal with routine matters in the observatory where she worked. But Henrietta Leavitt was determined to solved the mysteries of the sky!" - from inside cover flap.
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"It is March in the cold North. The long-gone sun is rising. Silvery ice glitters. Snow sparkles in the hazy glow. Two polar bears stand at ice edge: mother and cub. A mother polar bear and her cub are busy searching for food when suddenly, the ice they stand on breaks away-crack! Cut adrift, her cub is out of reach as the treacherous sea beings to carry him away. In she dives! Can they return to land safely? Simply told yet dramatic, and with realistic,...
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In 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing plants and animals, and recording his reflections in his notebook. These reflections eventually became his seminal work Walden.
In this lovely picture book, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor imagine a special...
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Evocative verse and powerful illustrations combine in this dramatic survival story where human divers attempt to free a humpback whale entangled in crab nets. Endnotes detail the real-life event that inspired the book and offer information about humpbacks and the danger of whale rescues.
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Dramatic, lyrical, and beautiful, O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America's greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America's greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Although the two men never met, Whitman often saw Lincoln's carriage on the road. The president was never far from the poet's mind, and Lincoln's "grace under pressure" was something Whitman returned...
17) One giant leap
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Commemorating the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon, this book is a tribute that transports readers to the stars, where they will experience the moon landing just as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did.
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Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination is presented as he and many other mourners await to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, IL in 1865.

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