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1) Sports
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.
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2007
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"In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams produced a remarkable body of work that is at once an artistic tour de force and a powerful tribute to his beloved American wilderness. Adams was given his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, in 1916, and made his first photographs during a family vacation in Yosemite National Park. Thus began a career and a lifetime devoted to making indelible images of America's wild places, its national parks, and...
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Mrs. Shepherd's class volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Josephina Caroleena Wattasheena the First creates havoc on school picture day when she tries to figure out how things work, but she rescues the situation when the photographer's camera will not operate.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
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©1983
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Discusses the importance of family photographs as a means of understanding the passage of time, establishing ties with ancestors, and varying ways of recording important events in family life. Includes suggestions for collecting photographs and putting together an album.
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[2017]
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This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals-especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos...
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[2011]
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"With The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos, you'll learn that you don't need expensive equipment and a professional photo studio to get quality results. Get simple, practical advice presented with the crafter in mind. Inside you'll find the most important fundamentals, including equipment advice, camera settings, composition and styling, evaluation of common problems, answers to frequently asked questions, and practitioner spotlighting. After...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friends found. The pictures keep turning out wrong--they seem to portray evil events that will soon occur!
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2020.
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"Twenty-three enticing projects help inspire a process of discovery and new ways of telling stories and animating ideas. 'Eyes Open' features photographs by young people from around the globe, as well as work by professional artists that demonstrates how a simple idea can be expanded. Playful and meaningful, this book is for young would-be photographers and those interested in expressing themselves creatively"--
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2006
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-- 100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs Whether you’re earning a living as a professional portraitist or snapping informal social shots just for fun, this resource offers clearly presented advice on the many aspects of digital and film portraiture:Composition and posingOutdoor and studio portraitsFashion, glamour, and beauty shotsGroup portraits—family, social, corporate, and business
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[2002]
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Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photography of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. On September 11, 2001, America and the world learned in a devastating attack that warfare can just as easily occur on a beautiful day in the middle of one of the world's greatest cities as in a desert thousands of miles away. The world was made aware of this because photographers...
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[2007]
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An alphabet book using twenty-six black-and-white photographs, which range from the mid-1800s to the early 1990s, from the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. Included are photographs by such masters as Walker Evans, Julia Margaret Cameron, Andre Kertesz, Weegee, Dorothea Lange, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Brief historical and background information on each photo included at the end of the book