Toni Buzzeo
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"From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue's honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed...
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v.(unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Description
Christmas is two days away, but Frances and her little brother Peter, who recently moved with their father to a lighthouse on an isolated island, fear that they will have no treats, no music, and no visit from Santa. Includes facts about the Flying Santa Service.
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Series
Mrs. Skorupski Story volume 4
Publisher
Upstart Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Hunter and Carmen disagree whether George Washington really had wooden teeth, and Mrs. Skorupski encourages them to research the story on the internet and use her "Website Evaluation Gizmo" to evaluate websites and come up with the correct answer.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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Motivated by a challenging situation and his supportive father, Little Loon finally learns to dive. It's time for diving lessons, but Little Loon is too nervous. When Papa shows him how to tuck in his feathers and dip down into the water, Little Loon rushes away without trying. But then-gruffle, snuffle, growl!-things become even more startling when Papa's not close by. And as Little Loon hears the reassuring call of his father, he's finally ready...
11) Whose Boat?
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Smoke billows up.
Cool water flows.
Whose boat is that?
Do you know?
This nonfiction ode to boats features six kinds of workers and their boats-a patrol boat, a tugboat, a car ferry, a lobster boat, a lifeboat, and a fireboat-with important parts properly labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain lies under a gatefold, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game. With lyrical (and factual!) text by New York Times-bestselling author...
12) Whose tools?
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Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 20 cm
Description
Explains how to build a house from the ground up features six kinds of craftsmen and the 24 tools they use, accurately labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain is revealed under a gatefold, seven in all, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Readers are introduced to Cynthia Moss, who devoted her adult life to studying African elephants, the largest land animals on the planet.
17) The sea chest
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.