Hundreds of books are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most popular Nonfiction Books for kids.
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of An American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.
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Are you ready to learn how to play Minecraft like a pro? This detailed guide will provide you with powerful tips on how to play Survival like the best Minecraft players!You can have an amazing time once you know the secrets that the best players know, and this book will share all of this and more. In this book, experts will guide you by the hand and teach you everything that you want to know. You will also get step-by-step instructions for amazing recipes and ideas. You'll be playing like a pro in no time! (syndetics)
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Introduces such creative mode elements as functional and aesthetic decor, and provides directions for building a remote outpost, ocean observatory, and steampunk airship.
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A treasury of bizarre-but-true stories from history includes accounts of such uncanny events as the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston and the world record set by an armless archer.
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View Weird but True!: Ripped From the Headlines: Real-life Stories You Have to Read to BelieveOver and Under the Snow
Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow exists a secret kingdom of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals that live through the winter safe and warm, awake and busy, under the snow. Discover the wonder and activity that lies beneath winter's snowy landscape in this magical book. (syndetics)
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"Most critters are quite tidy: a clean and pleasant lot. But now and then you'll meet a few young beasties who are NOT. They don't mean to be messy. They haven't got a clue. Come meet some potty animals and tell them what to do!"--Jacket.
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all" -- Publisher's description.
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Contains facts about killer whales and great white sharks, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.
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In this big, bold annual compendium, readers will discover a whole wide world of wacky, wild, and weird wonders on planet Earth, from the troll dog bug of Suriname to a Technicolor village in Indonesia.
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A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991. (3/29/2024 3:01:33 AM)
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