The Boy Who Played with Light

The Boy Who Played with Light PDF Author: Lavanya Karthik
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354921280
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Before Satyajit Ray became a world-famous film maker, he was a little boy who saw many things in the shadows. A delightfully illustrated short biography that will inspire young readers.

The Boy Who Played with Light

The Boy Who Played with Light PDF Author: Lavanya Karthik
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354921280
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Book Description
Before Satyajit Ray became a world-famous film maker, he was a little boy who saw many things in the shadows. A delightfully illustrated short biography that will inspire young readers.

On a Beam of Light

On a Beam of Light PDF Author: Jennifer Berne
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452113092
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light. This brilliant mind will one day offer up some of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived. From a boy endlessly fascinated by the wonders around him, Albert Einstein ultimately grows into a man of genius recognized the world over for profoundly illuminating our understanding of the universe. Jennifer Berne and Vladimir Radunsky invite the reader to travel along with Einstein on a journey full of curiosity, laughter, and scientific discovery. Parents and children alike will appreciate this moving story of the powerful difference imagination can make in any life.

The Boy Who Played with Fusion

The Boy Who Played with Fusion PDF Author: Tom Clynes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057129815X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Book Description
By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical uses for radioactive isotopes. And at 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what can Wilson's story teach parents and teachers about how to support high-achieving children?In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes follows Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey - from his Arkansas home where his parents encouraged his intellectual passions, to the present, when now-17-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the US.Brilliant, funny and inspiring, The Boy Who Played with Fusion will delight anyone who believes in the ability of gifted children to change the world.

The Girl Who Loved to Sing

The Girl Who Loved to Sing PDF Author: Lavanya Karthik
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354921272
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Book Description
Before Teejan Bai became a world-renowned singer, she was a little girl who had to fight for her freedom to sing. A delightfully illustrated short biography that will inspire young readers.

Finally, a Song of Myself

Finally, a Song of Myself PDF Author: Naomi Eisenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312083433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
A book of poetry and shorts by a seventeen year old playing with the limits of words.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See PDF Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Call of the Unicorn

Call of the Unicorn PDF Author: Bethany Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359325661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Book Description
Hundreds of unicorns are gone from the majestic world of Specktrum. It is up to Kat and her world to join forces with Specktrum to save the unicorns. Along the way, Kat learns just how much she didn't know about the people of her own world. And with the help of people in her world that are deemed as people with disabilities, Kat learns they are actually the people with utmost ability. They quickly become her allies and more importantly, her friends. *This is book one of the Unicorn series.

Taimani

Taimani PDF Author:
Publisher: Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
Inuvialuit Timeline Visual Guide

The Light in the Piazza

The Light in the Piazza PDF Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
A collection of six Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.

A Spark of Light

A Spark of Light PDF Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345544994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. “Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington Post The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day. One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Praise for A Spark of Light “This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.”—People “Told backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult’s compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues.”—Us Weekly