Category: middle grade

The World of Minecraft
by Heather E. Schwartz (Author)

Booktalk: Explore the history and culture surrounding the Minecraft games, books, toys, and more.

Snippet: Minecraft fans play in a vast world with almost unlimited freedom to be creative. But would you believe that the basic elements of Minecraft were created in only a few days? A Swedish game developer named Markus “Notch” Persson coded the game that quickly in 2004. He was in a hurry because he wanted to move on to other games. He had no idea the one he’d just made would become a smash hit.

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Impossible Inventions: Ideas That Shouldn’t Work
by Malgorzata Mycielska (Author), Alexandra Mizielinski (Illustrator), Daniel Mizielinski (Illustrator), and Agnes Monod-Gayraud (Translator)

Booktalk: This book is a collection of ancient and modern inventions. Some are revolutionary, others comical, others simply impossible. But each testifies to the extraordinary imagination of its inventor. You’ll find a flying bicycle, a bubble telegraph, passenger clouds and passenger birds, mechanical chess players, a water clock, a concentration helmet (below), and many more incredible ideas.

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