Bound To Stay Bound

In the shadow of the fallen towers : the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attacks by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Etch, 2021)

BTSB #: 158116 Available

Dewey: 973.931/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG

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Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Comic books, strips, etc Rescue work War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 United States - History

Summary: The consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, both political and personal, were vast, and continue to reverberate today. Don Brown brings his journalistic eye and attention to moving individual stories to help teens contextualize what they already know about the day, as well as broaden their understanding of the chain of events that occurred in the attack's wake. In graphic novel format.

Machines that think! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #2]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 158112 Available

Dewey: 6.3/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.4 MG F&P: W

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Subjects: Computers - History Autonomous robots Artificial intelligence

Summary: An exploration in graphic novel format of machines from ancient history to today that perform a multitude of tasks, from making mind-numbing calculations to working on assembly lines to guiding spaceships to the moon. In graphic novel format.

Rocket to the moon! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #1]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 158109 Available

Dewey: 629.45/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6 MG RC: 8.3 3-5 Lexile: 940 GN F&P: W

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Subjects: Project Apollo (U.S.) Space flight to the moon Biographical comic books, strips, etc

Summary: Looks at all the people that made space exploration possible. In graphic novel format.

Shot in the arm! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #3]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 158157 Available

Dewey: 615.3/NAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z

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Subjects: Vaccines - History - Comic books, strips, etc Vaccination - History Medical innovations

Summary: The history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease, from smallpox to COVID-19. Taking a unique perspective, the book is narrated by Englishwoman Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who popularized inoculation in England after encountering it in Turkey as wife of an English diplomat. Traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. In graphic novel format.

Up & down : the adventures of John Jeffries, first American to fly by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2018)

BTSB #: 158253 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.3 LG RC: 5.6 3-5 Lexile: 860

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Subjects: Jeffries, John,|d1745-1819 Balloonists Ballooning - History Meteorology - Research - History Physicians - Massachusetts - Boston - History

Summary: Chronicles the ballooning misadventures of John Jeffries, scientist and aviation pioneer.

We the people! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #4]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 162444 Available

Dewey: 321.86/NAges: 10-14   
F&P: X

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Subjects: Democracy - History Constitutional history Representative government and representation

Summary: Explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how the Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. In graphic novel format.