Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World
By: Kim Tomsic
4.38
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
"An exuberant introduction to a musician and creative genius." –Kirkus ReviewsA beautifully-illustr…
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1. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1)
By: Julia Finley Mosca , Daniel Rieley
4.38
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
If you’ve ever felt different, if you’ve ever been low, if you don’t quite fit in, there’s a name … read more
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2. On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
By: Vladimir Radunsky , Jennifer Berne
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed… read more
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3. The Noisy Paint Box
By: Mary GrandPré , Barb Rosenstock
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary Grandpre tell the fascinating… read more
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4. Rolling Thunder
By: Kate Messner , Greg Ruth
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Lines of bikes are miles long, shining, half a million strong. Rumbling, grumbling, engines roar. P… read more
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5. The North Star
By: Peter H. Reynolds
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Unknown Binding
After following paths and signs determined by others, a young boy finally realizes that he must fin… read more
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6. When We Were Alone
By: David Alexander Robertson , Julie Flett
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her… read more
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7. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Ma… read more
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8. His Royal Highness, King Baby: A Terrible True Story
By: David Roberts , Sally Lloyd-Jones
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
When an older sibling with a flair for the dramatic shares her kingdom with a baby tyrant, can ther… read more
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9. John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien
By: Eliza Wheeler , Caroline McAlister
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
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10. Because
By: Mo Willems
4.31
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful sy… read more
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11. Love in the Library
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
4.47
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more
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12. All from a Walnut: A Picture Book
By: Ammi-Joan Paquette
4.39
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A moving, multigenerational story about love, family roots, and the cycle of lifeWhen Emilia finds … read more
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13. Snail Crossing
By: Corey R. Tabor
4.32
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A determined snail. A plump cabbage. A truly epic journey . . . In a book as cheerful and … read more
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14. The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
By: Natascha Biebow
4.36
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This picture book biography tells the story of Edwi… read more
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15. How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
4.44
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting … read more
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16. Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden
By: Phyllis Root
4.07
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From an all-star team comes a lyrical picture-book biography about a writer and master gardener who… read more
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17. Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
By: Helaine Becker
4.50
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
The story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the sp… read more
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18. Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
By: Shannon Stocker
4.50
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
This picture book tells the true story of world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. T… read more
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19. Hardly Haunted
By: Jessie Sima
4.15
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling creator of Not Quite Narwhal comes a delightfully spooky story about an old ho… read more
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- picture books
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20. Pizza!: A Slice of History
By: Greg Pizzoli
4.24
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza… read more
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21. Stormy: A Story about Finding a Forever Home
By: Guojing
4.64
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
In this wordless picture book a woman visits a park and discovers a pup hiding under a bench--scruf… read more
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22. Our Table
By: Peter H. Reynolds
4.25
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Creative visionary of The Word Collector, Happy Dreamer, and The Dot, #1 New York Times bestseller … read more
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23. The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
By: Colleen Paeff
4.35
Format: None pages, None
Discover the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem in this … read more
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24. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
By: Chana Stiefel
4.63
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A picture book biography of the woman who created The Tower of Faces, an exhibit at the US Holocaus… read more
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25. The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
By: Scott Riley
4.27
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team… read more
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26. Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
By: Elizabeth Rusch
4.32
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
The true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster. Mexican American… read more
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27. The Pig War
By: Emma Bland Smith
4.08
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Here is a true story of how the great nations of America and England almost went to war in 1859 ove… read more
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28. Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
By: Barb Rosenstock
4.34
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into th… read more
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29. The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer
By: Mara Rockliff
4.26
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War I… read more
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30. Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World
By: Kim Tomsic
4.38
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
"An exuberant introduction to a musician and creative genius." –Kirkus ReviewsA beautifully-illustr… read more
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31. Set Your Alarm, Sloth!: More Advice for Troubled Animals from Dr. Glider
By: Jess Keating
4.17
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Have fun learning about some odd but true animal facts with Dr. Sugar Glider and her patients! Zoë … read more
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