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2) Hoaxes
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at some of history's most famous hoaxes and publicity stunts, including fairy photographs, moon-men, lost tribes, and crop circles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover fascinating facts and figures about the speediest things in the world! From the super-fast Bugatti Veyron car to the fastest land animal, the cheetah, find out what the fastest things on the planet are.
4) Crop circles
Author
Publisher
KidHaven Press/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Investigate the incredible phenomenon of crop circles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Robert spends much of his time memorizing trivia in hopes of becoming a contestant on "Instant Millionaire," and although nothing works out as he wished, he does get a chance to compete for a prize.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Why were the Easter Island heads erected? What really happened to the Maya? Who stole the Irish Crown Jewels? The first book in this exciting new series will cover history's heavy-hitting, head-scratching mysteries, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Bermuda Triangle, the Oak Island Money Pit, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the disappearance of entire civilizations, the dancing plague, the Voynich manuscript, and so many more. Chock-full of cool...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bill Nye is a man on a mission, to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. With intimate and exclusive access, as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy, this behind the scenes portrait of Nye follows him as he takes off his Science Guy lab coat and takes on those who deny climate change, evolution, and a science-based world view.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks. There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like: • The man who preached good health through blood-drinking. •...
11) Lost in Babylon
Author
Series
Seven wonders volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Journeying to the ancient city of Babylon when Bhegad tracks down Marco, the companions face a daunting choice involving a dire trap and a long-lost figure from Jack's past.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max are happy to be out of harms way now that the notorious villain Nicholas Rattigan is halfway across the country in Chicago. But unfortunately their home, Dumfreyss Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, is in danger of closing its doors forever. But their troubles only get worse. The four friends are shocked when their beloved friend, famous sculptor Siegfried Eckleberger, is murdered. As they investigate, they find...
Author
Language
English
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Description
After years lived entirely within the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out and ultimately leading into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Explore the world's greatest creations from the natural to the man-made, that have left indelible impressions on countless generations with their beauty, scale and style. From Australia's Great Barrier Reef to China's Forbidden City, the Great Pyramids of Giza to the Grand Canyon of the United States. Travel to the world's most breathtaking sights, monuments, palaces and natural wonders.
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