Computer Decoder

Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist
by Andi Diehn (Illustrator) and Katie Mazeika (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A picture book biography about Dorothy Vaughan, one of NASA’s first African American managers and one of the groundbreakers on the front line of electronic computing. Includes hands-on STEM activities for an introduction to coding.

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The Superlative A. Lincoln

The Superlative A. Lincoln: Poems About Our 16th President
by Eileen R. Meyer (Author) and Dave Szalay (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many extremes: he was the TALLEST president, who gave the GREATEST SPEECH and had the STRONGEST conviction. But did you know that he was also the MOST DISTRACTED farmer, the BEST wrestler, and the CRAFTIEST storyteller? Nineteen poems share fascinating stories about events in Lincoln’s life, while history notes go even deeper into how he excelled.

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Crazy Contraptions

Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel with Hands-On Engineering Activities
by Laura Perdew (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Young engineers are invited to invent, design, create, and play as they make their own Rube Goldberg machines using the engineering design process and lots of imagination!

Try these hands-on engineering projects!

  • Turn on a CD player
  • Screw a lid on a jar
  • Pop a balloon
  • Make a zipline
  • Make a balloon car
  • Build a catapult

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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
by David Elliott (Author)

Booktalk: Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. This biography told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc’s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood) explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Excerpts from the trials are also included. Some poems, like the one below, are displayed as concrete poems in the shape of the object that is speaking.

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A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

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