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Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps, and tracing the discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters, she found the answer: awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold-hunters in the Gobi des...

Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps, and tracing the discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters, she found the answer: awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold-hunters in the Gobi des...

As the population of the Baby Boomers' children arrives at the teen years, publishers and librarians scurry to meet the radically different needs of the Net Generation. This collection of "essays, talks, editorials, and rants" are sure to dissipate inertia and frustration, even as they rejuvenate the perennially young at heart.

Acclaimed historian Aronson sifts through the facts, myths, half-truths, and theories about the witch trials in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, to present a vivid narrative of one of the most compelling mysteries in American history. Illustrations.

Simon Larsson (Bill Skarsgård) lebt mit seinen Eltern Karin (Helen Sjöholm) und Erik (Stefan Gödicke) in einem kleinen Haus in der Nähe von Göteborg. Die Eltern sind einfache, aber liebevolle und prinzipientreue Menschen. Während der Vater, ein bodenständiger Arbeiter, ihn am liebsten zum Handwerker machen würde, ist Simon ein Bücherwurm. Oft hat er das Gefühl, nicht in die Familie zu passen. Sein bester Freund ist eine Eiche, in deren Krone e...

It's one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature's top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that ingeniously pick up where th...

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The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"--

A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist."King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. . . . You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation." Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in an anonymous letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was telling him to commit suicide. Who wrote this anonymous letter? The FBI. And the man behind it...

From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fossils in September 2015, this book is an amazing account of Lee Berger's 2008 hunt -- with the help of his curious 9-year-old son -- for a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been direct ancestors of modern humans. The discovery of two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopiitecus sediba, has...

Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite - no, demand - a straight read-through." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)Nine of YA literature's top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up whe...

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Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson presents the famous folk song as a mystery to be unraveled, identifying the embedded clues within the lyrics, which he examines to uncov...

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