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• Beauty and the Beak

  How Science, Technology, and a 3D-printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle

  Rose, Deborah Lee,

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• Chasing Space

  Melvin, Leland,

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• Fault Lines in the Constitution

  the Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today

  Levinson, Cynthia,

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• Girls Who Code

  Learn to Code and Change the World

  Saujani, Reshma,

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• Grand Canyon

  Chin, Jason, 1978-

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• I'm Just No Good at Rhyming, and Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grownups

  Harris, Chris, 1970-

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• Isaac the Alchemist

  Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd

  Losure, Mary,

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• Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!

  Games, Songs & Stories From An African American Childhood

  McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017,

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• Life on Surtsey, Iceland's Upstart Island

  Burns, Loree Griffin,

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• Locked Up for Freedom

  Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade

  Schwartz, Heather E.,

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• One Last Word

  Wisdom From the Harlem Renaissance

  Grimes, Nikki,

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• Out of Wonder

  Poems Celebrating Poets

  Alexander, Kwame,

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• Pathfinders

  the Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls

  Bolden, Tonya,

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• The Quilts of Gee's Bend

  Rubin, Susan Goldman,

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• The Search for Olinguito

  Discovering a New Species

  Markle, Sandra,

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• A Soldier's Sketchbook

  the Illustrated First World War Diary of R.H. Rabjohn

  Rabjohn, R. H. (Russell Hughes), 1898-

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• Stormy Seas

  Stories of Young Boat Refugees

  Leatherdale, Mary Beth,

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• This Is Our Constitution

  Discover America With a Gold Star Father

  Khan, Khizr, 1950-

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• Twelve Days in May

  Freedom Ride, 1961

  Brimner, Larry Dane,

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• Two Truths and a Lie. It's Alive!

  Paquette, Ammi-Joan,

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