Bottle tops : the art of El Anatsui by Goldberg, Alison 

BTSB Prebound(Lee & Low Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 383661 Available

Dewey: 730.92/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.2 MG F&P: U

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Subjects: Anatsui, El,|d1944- Sculptors - Ghana - Biography Bottle caps as art material

Summary: The life story of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, a highly acclaimed African artist whose tapestries made from repurposed bottle tops have been exhibited throughout the world.

Free at last : a Juneteenth poem by Rolle, Sojourner Kincaid 

BTSB Prebound(Sterling Children's Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 762645 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 920 AD

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Subjects: Juneteenth - Poetry Slaves - Emancipation - Texas - Poetry

Summary: Traces the solemnity and celebration of Juneteenth from its 1865 origins in Galveston, Texas to contemporary observances all over the United States. This is an ode to the strength of Black Americans and a call to remember and honor a holiday whose importance reverberates far beyond the borders of Texas.

Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book by Bolden, Tonya 

BTSB Prebound(Quill Tree Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 130461 Available

Dewey: 305/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 6.1 LG

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Subjects: Green, Victor Hugo African Americans - Biography Race discrimination Automobile travel Authorship

Summary: A nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide written and published by a Black postal worker from Harlem who wanted African Americans to stay safe while traveling around the United States during segregation.

How science saved the Eiffel tower by Smith, Emma Bland 

BTSB Prebound(Capstone Editions, 2022)

BTSB #: 827126 Available

Dewey: 621.3845/NAges: 8-10   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 710

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Subjects: Eiffel, Gustave,|d1832-1923 Wireless communication systems - France - Paris Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

Summary: The city of Paris wanted to tear down the Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel built for the1889 World's Fair. More than a million delighted people flocked to visit it during the fair. But the officials wondered, beyond being a spectacle, what is it good for? It must come down! But Eiffel loved his tower. He crafted a clever plan to make the tower too useful to tear down by turning it into "a laboratory such as science has never had at its disposal." Could science save the Eiffel Tower?

Just a girl : a true story of World War II by Levi, Lia 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 566594 Available

Dewey: 940.53/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG

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Subjects: Levi, Lia,|d1931- World War, 1939-1945 Jews - Italy - Biography Hidden children (Holocaust) Italy

Summary: When Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, everything changes for six-year-old Lia. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. As war comes closer, it becomes too dangerous for her family to stay together, and Lia and her sisters are sent to hide at a convent. Will she ever be "just a girl" again?

Maya's song by Watson, Renee 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 922597 Available

Dewey: 818/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.6 LG

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Subjects: Angelou, Maya African American poets - Biography African American women - Biography

Summary: Chronicles the life of poet and activist Maya Angelou.

Serengeti : plains of grass by Bulion, Leslie 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2022)

BTSB #: 169923 Available

Dewey: 577.4/NAges: 8-12   


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Subjects: Savanna ecology - Poetry Savanna animals - Poetry Grassland animals - Ecology - Poetry Animals - Poetry Serengeti Plain (Tanzania) - Poetry

Summary: Colorful images accompanied by both poetry and regular narrative describe the ecosystem of the Serengeti.

Unbreakable : the spies who cracked the Nazis' secret code by Barone, Rebecca E. F. 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2022)

BTSB #: 091734 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.7 MG Lexile: 1000

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Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Cryptography Enigma cipher system Cryptographers - Poland Cryptographers - France Cryptographers - Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service

Summary: Tells the story of one of the most dangerous war-time code-breaking efforts ever. As Hitler marched his troops across conquered lands and deadly "wolfpacks" of German U-Boats prowled the open seas, victory-or defeat-for the Allies hinged on their desperate attempts to crack the code. When a group of Allied spies and codebreakers cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, it allowed them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II.

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

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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.