All charged up! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #5]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2024)

BTSB #: 158028 Available

Dewey: 537/NAges: 10-14   


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Subjects: Electricity Electric power

Summary: Explores the history of electricity, highlighting key inventors and breakthroughs, from the earliest discoveries to the Age of Electricity to today. 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 Temp OS

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.

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.