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Timely animal ecology STEM content about a recently categorized threatened species Extinction topics are top-of-mind as people deal with climate change and human encroachment on animal habitats. Timely topic in context of the attack on the Endangered Species Act, which was stripped (in July 2018) of key provisions that determine categorization of threatened and endangered animals. Easy to promote as part of World Giraffe Day every year on Summ...

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A Junior Library Guild Selection. This is the book that introduced modern readers to the courageous 15-year-old girl who survived the bloodiest battle ever to take place on U.S. soil the Battle of Gettysburg and told the exciting story in gripping detail. In July 1863, Tillie Pierce became an unlikely heroine of the Civil War (1861-1865). Tillie and other women and girls like her found themselves trapped during this critical three-day battle i...

With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the U.S. and Confederate governments hired women and girls some as young as ten to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition. Hidden history comes alive through primary-source research and page-turning narrative. 'Gunpowder Girls' is ...

Presents the life and career of the children's author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.