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This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste...
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". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
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Before Jacques Cousteau became an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas, he was a curious little boy. In this lovely biography, poetic text and gorgeous paintings combine to create a portrait of Jacques Cousteau that is as magical as it is inspiring.
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This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.
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"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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As a young boy, Theodore "Teedie" Roosevelt was small, had weak eyes, and frail muscles. But Teedie was also inquisitive, brave, and self-sufficient. Determined to overcome his childhood ailments, Teedie changed from a timid homebody into an adventurous man. He explored the Wild West, fought in the Spanish-American War, served as president of the United States, and helped build the Panama Canal.
9) Hidden child
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The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
10) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
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Isaac Newton was not only brilliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, that places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Carli Lloyd is the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team captain who helped win a FIFA championship in 2015 with a hat trick in the first sixteen minutes of the final game. Yet she nearly quit the sport in 2003. Here is the inspirational story of how she rose from near defeat to the ultimate triumph.
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"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.
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This story reveals the life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, who was kidnapped from his tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted and renamed Carlos Montezuma, the young boy traveled throughout the Old West, bearing witness to the poor treatment of Native Americans. Carlos eventually became a doctor and leader for his people.
16) Sacagawea
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The story of Sacagawea seems like a legend, but it's true. Sacagawea married and had a baby; when her son was two months old, she went with Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Sumario en español: El relato de Sacagawea puede parecer una leyenda, pero es una historia real. Sacagawea se casó y tuvo un bebé, cuando su hijo tenía dos meses de edad, se fue con Lewis y Clark en un viaje de descubimientos.
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When William Beebe was born in 1877, scientists had only begun to explore the natural world, a world that fascinated Beebe even as a child. He studied migratory birds, rain forest canopies, and ocean depths. Beebe was a pioneer of ecology, observing wildlife in their natural habitats.
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