Soar, Elinor!

Soar, Elinor! PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374371156
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Brown and Roca tell the thrilling true story of legendary aviatrix Elinor Smith, who in 1928 pulled off a risky aeronautic feat skillfully and with style. Full color.

Soar, Elinor!

Soar, Elinor! PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374371156
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Brown and Roca tell the thrilling true story of legendary aviatrix Elinor Smith, who in 1928 pulled off a risky aeronautic feat skillfully and with style. Full color.

Art Is Life

Art Is Life PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 037438908X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone. Art is life... and life is art. Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone. When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York needed liberating, illuminating, and radiating art. So he bought a stick of white chalk and started drawing...

We Really Do Care

We Really Do Care PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Philomel Books
ISBN: 1984836307
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
A selfish young boy learns the importance of compassion and empathy, demonstrating how even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference to someone who has nothing.

The Map of Me

The Map of Me PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374356866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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The note Momma left on the fridge says only: "I HAVE TO GO." But go where? Twelve-year-old Margie is convinced that Momma's gone to the Rooster Romp at the International Poultry Hall of Fame, in search of additions to her precious flock of chicken memorabilia. And it's up to Margie to bring her home. So she commandeers her daddy's Faithful Ford, kidnaps her nine-year-old sister, Peep, and takes to the open road. As she navigates the back roads of Kentucky with smarty-pants Peep criticizing her every move, Margie also travels along the highways and byways of her heart, mapping a course to help understand Momma—and herself.

Hibernation Station

Hibernation Station PDF Author: Michelle Meadows
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442436840
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Everybody at the station! It’s time for winter hibernation! The sweet rhyming text of this book will calm even the most rambunctious kids and have them dreaming about what it’s like to hibernate. Young readers will be soothed and delighted as this story introduces them to different types of hibernating animals. The creatures on the train are preparing to snuggle into sleep, although with a passenger list that includes chipmunks, bears, snakes, hedgehogs, groundhogs, frogs, turtles, mice, bats, and more, there’s a lot of noise! Will the hibernating critters ever get to sleep? Take a trip to Hibernation Station to find out!

Instructions Not Included

Instructions Not Included PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1368046045
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Click. Whir. Buzz. Not so long ago, math problems had to be solved with pencil and paper, mail delivered by postman, and files were stored in paper folders and metal cabinets. But three women, Betty Snyder, Jean Jennings, and Kay McNulty knew there could be a better way. During World War II, people hoped ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), one of the earliest computers, could help with the war effort. With little guidance, no instructions, and barely any access to the machine itself, Betty, Jean, and Kay used mathematics, electrical engineering, logic, and common sense to command a computer as large as a room and create the modern world. The machine was like Betty, requiring outside-the-box thinking, like Jean, persistent and consistent, and like Kay, no mistakes, every answer perfect. Today computers are all around us, performing every conceivable task, thanks, in large part, to Betty, Jean, and Kay's pioneering work. Instructions Not Included is their story. This fascinating chapter in history is brought to life with vivid prose by Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn and with striking illustrations by Chelsea Beck. Detailed back matter including historical photos provides a closer look.

Perkin's Perfect Purple

Perkin's Perfect Purple PDF Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781368032841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and chemotherapy. But it was his creation of purple that started it all. This book is a joyous celebration of Perkin's impactful purple.--

Virtual Money

Virtual Money PDF Author: Elinor Harris Solomon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
Offers an informative examination of the pros and cons of virtual money in its myriad forms. Beginning with the growth of the credit card in the mid-sixties, Solomon (economics, GWU) goes on to explore exotic new E-monies such as "Smart Cards," e-cash, electronic wallets, and cybermoney. Also covers upcoming innovations such as electronic benefits transfers (EBT), which may replace food stamps by 1999. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Autumn Rain

Autumn Rain PDF Author: Anita Mills
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626810389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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This Regency romance is “a beautifully crafted and well-written novel by a superb storyteller. I highly recommend it” (Heather Graham, New York Times–bestselling author of Come the Morning). When Elinor Ashton’s father forces her into a loveless marriage to satisfy his debts, she becomes the unhappiest bride in London society . . . and the property of Lord Kingsley, an elderly and enormously wealthy man whose jealousy leads him to concoct an unspeakable scheme. Lucien de Clare is England’s most handsome—and most brazen—lord, a man whose scandalous behavior made the doors to polite society close against him. This makes him the perfect pawn in Kingsley’s despicable plot to secure an heir. But the attempt at a deceitful seduction of Elinor leads to true desire, as Lucien is overcome by her beauty and charm. Neither treacherous intrigue nor vengeful deeds can temper their desire for forbidden kisses, or dampen the fire that fuels their love . . . “Powerful . . . A story to touch all of your emotions.” —Janelle Taylor, New York Times–bestselling author of Moondust and Madness

Born to Fly

Born to Fly PDF Author: Steve Sheinkin
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1626721319
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Born to Fly is the gripping story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies—and beyond. Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age seventeen made headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. These awe-inspiring stories culminate in a suspenseful, nail-biting rate across the country that brings to life the glory and grit of the dangerous and thrilling early days of flying, expertly told by the master of nonfiction history for young readers, National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. Featuring illustrations by Bijou Karman.