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"Since the invention of the telephone, there has been controversy over who really invented it: Was it really Alexander Graham Bell? Or was is Elisha Gray-or someone else? But, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first patent issued to a design for a telephone, making Alexander Graham Bell the man credited with changing communication forever! Readers learn about the early life that led Bell to invent the telephone as well as his other accomplishments,...
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical, working telephone he assured himself a place in the history books forever. The telephone was an invention that truly changed the world. It quickly became the fastest and most efficient way for people to communicate over any distance.
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There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship between the narrator -- a photographer in her late forties -- and a precocious raconteur, identified only as The Boy, whom she has known since his...
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Firefighter George, with the help of the Atlanta New Century School, prepares a class to handle an emergency and dial 911. Your child will see situations such as a house with smoke coming out, a child in the water in trouble, a parent unconscious on the ground, a burglar trying to break into a house, and real children respond to the emergencies and dial 911.
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The telephone is one invention that changed the world. It was made by Alexander Graham Bell. Kids will read this book and find out more about him, like that his first job was teaching deaf people. They will also learn more about his invention and working with Thomas Watson.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles.
Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...
86) Gimme a call
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After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self.
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"Cell phones are an important part of life for many kids and teens. They use cell phones to keep in touch with friends, to look up facts, and for emergencies. But should cell phones be allowed in school? This book introduces readers to major arguments for and against cell phones in the classroom. Readers will be able to take in the arguments and supporting facts to make an informed opinion of their own. Through accessible text, fact boxes, and a graphic...
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Alexander Graham Bell led a fascinating life. He was an immigrant, an inventor, a pioneering speech teacher, and a champion of educating the hearing impaired. Bell was raised by a mother who had nearly no hearing, married a deaf woman, and was lifelong friends with Helen Keller. Few people realize that Bell considered his work with the deaf the most important of his life. Quite a statement, considering Bell's inventions ranged from telephony and phonographs...
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City-and the world In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour-enough time for Genovese's assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from...
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These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
94) Punch-drunk love
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Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena. But their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
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"This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female 'wire experts' when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops...
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