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489953
American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2022)

BTSB #: 489953 Available

Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.2 MG Lexile: 1080 F&P: Z

Subjects: Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y19th century Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y20th century Public health - Southern States - History|y19th century Public health - Southern States - History|y20th century


Summary: Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better.


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518309
Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Kimmerer, Robin Wall 

Paperback(Zest Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 518309 Available

Dewey: 305.8/NAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 980

Subjects: Kimmerer, Robin Wall Native American philosophy Ethnoecology Nature. - Philosophy Human ecology - Philosophy Nature - Effect of human beings on Human-plant relationship Botany - Philosophy Potawatomi Indians - Biography Potawatomi Indians - Social life and customs


Summary: Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.


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139304
Hardcourt : stories from 75 years of the National Basketball Association by Bowen, Fred 

BTSB Prebound(Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 139304 Available

Dewey: 796.323/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG Lexile: 1000 NC F&P: U

Subjects: National Basketball Association Basketball - United States - History Basketball players - United States


Summary: The story of the National Basketball Association from its origins through the major events and players who made basketball what it is today.


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867809
Heroines, rescuers, rabbis, spies : unsung women of the Holocaust by Swartz, Sarah Silberstein 

Paperback(Second Story Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 867809 Available

Dewey: 940.53/BAges: 14-18   
F&P: Z+

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Biography Jewish women - Biography


Summary: Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile.


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894258
How to build a human : in seven evolutionary steps by Turner, Pamela S. 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2022)

BTSB #: 894258 Available

Dewey: 599.93/NAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 990 F&P: Z

Subjects: Evolution Human beings Human origins Fossil hominids


Summary: A celebrated science writer draws upon the most recent discoveries in paleoanthropology and evolutionary biology to present the seven most important steps leading to Homo sapiens.


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Mammoth math : (with a little help from some elephant shrews) by Macaulay, David 

BTSB Prebound(DK, 2022)

BTSB #: 592040 Available

Dewey: 510/NAges: 7-11   


Subjects: Mathematics Numbers Arithmetic Geometry Measurement


Summary: Inquisitive mammoths cover the basics of numbers, operations, geometry, measurement, and more.


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341184
Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime by Fleming, Candace 

BTSB Prebound(Anne Schwartz Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 341184 Available

Dewey: 364/CAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 850

Subjects: Homicide Trials (Homicide) - Illinois College students Jews - Biography Wealth Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century


Summary: In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. Depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty.


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463014
My big book of outdoors by Hopgood, Tim 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 463014 Available

Dewey: 500/NAges: 6-9   


Subjects: Seasons Nature Ecology


Summary: This ode to the four seasons introduces young readers to the world of nature outside their door.


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702456
Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adam' photographs reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration by Partridge, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 702456 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 990 F&P: Z

Subjects: Miyatake, Toyo Lange, Dorothea Adams, Ansel Manzanar War Relocation Center United States.|bWar Relocation Authority.|bPhotography Section Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Photography World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - California - Manzanar


Summary: Examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams who all photographed the events with different approaches and different results.


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924674
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu 

Paperback(Dutton Children's Books, 2023)

BTSB #: 924674 Temp OS

Dewey: 813/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 7 MG

Subjects: Butler, Octavia E American fiction - African American authors - Biography Science fiction - Women authors - Biography African American novelists - Biography African American women authors - Biography


Summary: Illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experienced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death.


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047681
Troublemakers in trousers : women and what they wore to get things done by Albee, Sarah 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2022)

BTSB #: 047681 Available

Dewey: 305.4209/NAges: 9-12   
Lexile: 990

Subjects: Women - Attitudes - History Feminism - History Women - Biography Men's clothing - History


Summary: Meet twenty-one women through history who wore men's clothing, pretended to be men, or broke the rules in order to do something they wanted--or needed--to do.


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299358
Unequal : a story of America by Dyson, Michael Eric 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 299358 Available

Dewey: 323.1/NAges: 12-18   


Subjects: African Americans - Civil rights Civil rights workers - United States - Biography Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations


Summary: Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality.


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198696
Wolves and moose of Isle Royale : restoring an island ecosystem by Castaldo, Nancy F. 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2022)

BTSB #: 198696 Available

Dewey: 599.77/NAges: 10-12   


Subjects: Wolves Moose Wildlife conservation Isle Royale National Park (Mich.)


Summary: Journey to the isolated islands of Isle Royale National Park where the longest predator/prey study in the world is being conducted along with a controversial genetic rescue to save not only the wolves and moose, but the entire island ecosystem.


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661684
Woman who split the atom : Lise Meitner by Moss, Marissa 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 661684 Available

Dewey: 539.092/BAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z

Subjects: Meitner, Lise,|d1878-1968 Physicists - Germany - Biography Women physicists - Germany - Biography Nuclear fusion


Summary: As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field. She made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism. After she discovered the splitting of the atom, a male colleague won the Nobel Prize for her work and the race to build the atom bomb began, much to her horror.


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