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The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World
by Dylan Thuras (Author), Jennifer Swanson (Author), and Ruby Fresson (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This illustrated middle grade book explores the planet’s 50 most interesting inventions and scientific discoveries around the planet and across time. Each spread focuses on a world-changing technology and how it led to or influenced the tech or discovery on the next page. The book begins with the very first invention–fire.

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We are All Animals

We are All Animals: Discover what YOU have in common with a cat, a bat, a jellyfish and 150 other animals!
by Christopher Lloyd (Author), Ben Hoare (Author), and Mark Ruffle (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This middle grade book reveals astonishing similarities in the anatomy – and many more characteristics – of humans and other animals, celebrating our entire furry, scaly, slimy, slippery, extended family.

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