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Let's Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Julius Lester, Karen Barbour (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN: 9780064462266
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: HarperCollins - December 23rd, 2008
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Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights (Paperback)

By Ann Bausum
$9.99
ISBN: 9780147511478
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Published: Speak - May 3rd, 2016
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Hardcover)

By Bill Bryson
$19.99
ISBN: 9780385738101
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers - October 27th, 2009
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (Paperback)

By David Macaulay
$10.99
ISBN: 9780395349229
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Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - October 24th, 1983
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The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Hardcover)

By Jim Murphy
$19.99
ISBN: 9780439691840
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Published: Scholastic Press - October 1st, 2012

The only reason I'm not a full-time grifter is because I lack the patience needed for a successful long con. I once purchased a subscription to Pageantry Magazine for a Toddlers and Tiaras-loving friend and having to wait for her first issue to arrive before I took credit for the joke damn near killed me. This book made me think about that a lot, and it made me wish I had:

1. The moxie to fake a skeleton of a 10-foot-tall giant

2. The ambition to bury it

3. The patience to wait a year before "finding" it

4. The salesmanship to profit off it

— Cristin

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Who Was Nelson Mandela? (Who Was?) (Paperback)

By Pam Pollack, Who HQ, Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9780448479330
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Published: Penguin Workshop - January 9th, 2014
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Who Was Frida Kahlo? (Who Was?) (Paperback)

By Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ, Jerry Hoare (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9780448479385
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Published: Penguin Workshop - December 26th, 2013
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What Were the Twin Towers? (What Was?) (Paperback)

By Jim O'Connor, Who HQ, Ted Hammond (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9780448487854
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Published: Penguin Workshop - May 10th, 2016
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Maps (Hardcover)

By Aleksandra Mizielinska, Daniel Mizielinski
$35.00
ISBN: 9780763668969
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Published: Big Picture Press - October 8th, 2013
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - Gift Box Set: 200 Tales of Extraordinary Women (Hardcover)

By Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo
$65.00
ISBN: 9780997895834
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Published: Rebel Girls - December 4th, 2017
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Paperback)

By Steve Sheinkin
$12.99
ISBN: 9781250050649
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Published: Square Fish - January 9th, 2018
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What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing (Hardcover)

By Karen Magnuson Beil
$21.95
ISBN: 9781324004684
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Published: Norton Young Readers - October 1st, 2019
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The Undefeated (Hardcover)

By Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781328780966
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Published: Versify - April 2nd, 2019
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Weird But True Food: 300 Bite-size Facts About Incredible Edibles (Paperback)

By National Geographic Kids, Julie Beer
$8.99
ISBN: 9781426318719
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Published: National Geographic Kids - March 10th, 2015
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History's Mysteries: Freaky Phenomena: Curious Clues, Cold Cases, and Puzzles From the Past (Paperback)

By Kitson Jazynka
$14.99
ISBN: 9781426331640
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Published: National Geographic Kids - September 25th, 2018
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National Geographic Kids Almanac 2020 (National Geographic Almanacs) (Paperback)

By National Geographic Kids
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ISBN: 9781426332814
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: National Geographic Kids - May 7th, 2019
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National Geographic Kids Beginner's World Atlas, 4th Edition (Paperback)

By National Geographic Kids
$12.99
ISBN: 9781426335525
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Published: National Geographic Kids - July 9th, 2019
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This Is How I Do It: One Day in the Life of You and 59 Real Kids from Around the World (Paperback)

By Matt Lamothe
$12.99
ISBN: 9781452174600
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Published: Chronicle Books - October 15th, 2019
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Margarita Engle, Edel Rodriguez (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781481435222
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - August 4th, 2015
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Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World (Hardcover)

By Miranda Paul, Baptiste Paul, Isabel Muñoz (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781499806656
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Published: little bee books - May 1st, 2018
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The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid Cover Image

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (Hardcover)

By Dylan Thuras, Rosemary Mosco, Joy Ang (Illustrator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781523503544
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Published: Workman Publishing Company - September 18th, 2018

Put back the Guinness Book of World Records and give the gift of armchair travels to wondrous places instead.
 

— Kate

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What Is the Women's Rights Movement? (What Was?) (Paperback)

By Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ, Laurie A. Conley (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9781524786298
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Published: Penguin Workshop - October 16th, 2018
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Where Is Broadway? (Where Is?) (Paperback)

By Douglas Yacka, Francesco Sedita, Who HQ, John Hinderliter (Illustrator)
$5.99
ISBN: 9781524786502
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Published: Penguin Workshop - April 30th, 2019
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Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson (Hardcover)

By Katherine Johnson
$17.99
ISBN: 9781534440838
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - July 2nd, 2019
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Make Trouble Young Readers Edition: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead (Hardcover)

By Cecile Richards, Lauren Peterson (With), Ruby Shamir (Adapted by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781534451957
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - October 15th, 2019
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Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet (Hardcover)

By Valentina Camerini, Moreno Giovannoni (Translated by), Veronica Carratello (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781534468771
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Published: Aladdin - November 26th, 2019
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A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series) (Paperback)

By Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stefoff (Contributions by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9781583228692
Availability: Not On Our Shelves - Available to Order
Published: Triangle Square - June 2nd, 2009
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Paul Revere's Ride (Paperback)

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Monica Vachula (Illustrator)
$11.95
ISBN: 9781590788691
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Published: Boyds Mills Press - April 1st, 2011
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Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code (A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book) (Hardcover)

By Rebel Girls, Marina Muun (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9781733176187
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Published: Rebel Girls - November 12th, 2019
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Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history (Hardcover)

By Natasha Slee, Cynthia Kittler (Illustrator)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781786031952
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Published: Wide Eyed Editions - April 2nd, 2019
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Shackleton's Journey (Hardcover)

By William Grill
$24.00
ISBN: 9781909263109
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Published: Flying Eye Books - February 18th, 2014
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Guinness World Records 2020 (Hardcover)

By Guinness World Records
$28.95
ISBN: 9781912286836
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Published: Guinness World Records - September 3rd, 2019