Don Brown
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2018
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Sibert Honor Medalist · New York Public Library Best Of 2018 · The Horn Book's Fanfare 2018 list · Kirkus Best Books of 2018 · YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Winner
In the tradition of two-time Sibert honor winner Don Brown's critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely,
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"Brown ... sits down with [Jerry] Yellin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the ... story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over--but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. [This book] is a ... first-person...
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Big ideas that changed the world volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"A history of vaccines [that] includes COVID-19 research." -- Adapted from cover.
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Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
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2011.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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This book provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D. C. and the hi-jacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania,
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[2008]
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IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Provides the captivating story of this amazing vessel, the people who built it, and its tragic demise during its maiden voyage across the Atlantic as told through first-hand accounts and detailed illustrations of the events as they happened.
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Pub. Date
2003
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IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Our popular image of Mark Twain is of a gruff, gray-haired eccentric, the outspoken literary giant who created enduring novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
But once upon a time, Mark Twain was a boy named Samuel Clemens. His birth on November 30, 1835, coincided with the appearance of Halley’s comet, streaking across the sky. A dreamer, a prankster, a lover of great tales, Sam Clemens spent his boyhood...
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IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Dolley was a farm girl who became a fine first lady when she married James Madison. She wore beautiful dresses, decorated her home, and threw lavish parties. Everyone talked about Dolley, and everyone loved her, too. Then war arrived at her doorstep, and Dolley had to meet challenges greater than she'd ever known. So Dolley did one thing she thought might make a difference: she saved George Washington. Not the man himself, but a portrait of him, which...
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[2000]
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants
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[2023]
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"A city ruined. In once quiet residential streets, two armies battle, driving people into cellars and basements with little food or water. No lights or heat. Dwindling medical supplies. Shells and bullets deliver cruel, random death to the young and old, men, women, and children. This is Mariupol, a Ukrainian city and early target of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bordering Russian-occupied territory, the coastal city seemed doomed to a defeat that...
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Big ideas that changed the world volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Award-winning author Don Brown explores a very timely subject: the history of vaccines A Shot in the Arm! , book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox—perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date—and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly...
19) Treason
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Navy justice series volume 1
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c2005
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Lieutenant Zack Brewer finds his skills and Christian beliefs challenged when he is chosen to prosecute a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps.
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Pacific Rim novels volume 2
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c2012
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After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.