Month: April 2024

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Everybody’s Book

Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah
by Linda Leopold Strauss (Author) and Tim Smart (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This true story begins long ago in Spain, where a bride and groom are gifted a hand-painted haggadah. It is used at many Passover seders until the Spanish Inquisition when the family escapes. The haggadah survived for centuries in different countries. Scholars declared it a treasure. To protect it from the Nazis, a curator smuggled it out of a Sarajevo museum and hid it in a village mosque. On Passover of 1995, with bombs exploding overhead, the Bosnian president brought out the book from an underground vault to show the world that it was safe. The Sarajevo Haggadah has become a symbol of people of many faiths and cultures working together.

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy: Power the World with Sustainable Fuel with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids
by Erin Twamley (Author), Joshua Sneideman (Author), and Micah Rauch (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Scientists ages 9 to 12 learn how switching from nonrenewable energy sources to renewable ones can help make our homes, businesses, cities, and world better, healthier places. What are those renewable resources? Solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and bioenergy!

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MAKE YOUR OWN LANDFILL
Landfills are where waste and garbage are buried between layers of soil. They are a crucial part of keeping our planet healthy. But there is a right way and a wrong way to construct one! Landfills need to be built so they can be safely contained far into the future.

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