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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb
by Roseanne MontilloBomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there: Meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries abroad, these scientists helped in -- and often initiated -- the development of the atomic bomb, taking starring roles in the Manhattan Project. In fact, their involvement was critical to its success, though many of them were not fully aware of the consequences.The atomic women include:Lise Meitner and Irène Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie), who led the groundwork for the Manhattan Project from Europe;Elizabeth Rona, the foremost expert in plutonium, who gave rise to the "Fat Man" and "Little Boy," the bombs dropped over Japan;Leona Woods, Elizabeth Graves, and Joan Hinton, who were inspired by European scientific ideals but carved their own paths.This book explores not just the critical steps toward the creation of a successful nuclear bomb, but also the moral implications of such an invention. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}
Atoms and Elements i Science
by McGraw-Hill Education StaffLearn more about elementary particles and other aspects of physics.
Attack of Apollyon (Left Behind: The Kids #19)
by Tim Lahaye Chris Fabry Jerry B. JenkinsAs freezing temperatures envelop the earth, Judd tries to figure out his next move. Lionel struggles to help a friend. Back at the schoolhouse. Vicki pulls the kids together in the midst of the worst judgment yet. Mark prepares to meet a mysterious friend of his late cousin but can he be trusted? As a strange star falls to earth, the Young Trib Force knows the next judgment is near one so terrible it will be announced from heaven first. Will the kids make it through? Follow Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and the rest of the growing Young Trib Force as they face the most horrifying judgment yet.
Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower
by Sam Bosma Christian McKay HeidickerFrom the author of Cure for the Common Universe comes a monster-movie-like novel that bravely challenges perceived notions of beauty, identity, and modern voyeurism.<P><P>Phoebe Lane is a lightning rod for monsters. She and her mom are forced to flee flesh-eating plants, blobs from outer space, and radioactive ants. They survive thanks to Phoebe’s dad—an invisible titan, whose giant eyes warn them where the next monster attack will take place. All Phoebe wants is to stop running from motel to motel and start living a monster-free life in New York or Paris. But when her mom mysteriously vanishes, Phoebe is left to fend for herself in small-town Pennybrooke. That's when Phoebe starts to transform… <P><P>Christian McKay Heidicker returns with a book unlike any other, challenging perceived notions of beauty, identity, and what it means to be a monster.
Attack on Petra (Left Behind: The Kids #33)
by Jerry B. Jenkins Tim Lahaye Chris FabryJudd and Lionel must find a way to help their friend Westin Jakes before its too late. Will they escape in time? In Wisconsin, Vicki reaches out to a new friend and endangers herself and the rest of the Young Tribulation Force. Sam Goldberg, living in Petra, watches deadly bombs hurtle toward a million people. Will the work in Petra come to an end? Follow the kids as they make life threatening decisions in a world filled with Nicolae Carpathia's evil.
Attacked!: Pearl Harbor and the Day War Came to America
by Marc FavreauThe true story of Pearl Harbor as you&’ve never read it before—action-packed, informative, and told through the eyes of a diverse group of people who experienced the terror of the unprecedented attack firsthand. A single day changed the course of history: December 7, 1941. Nobody in America knew Japan&’s attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. Nobody was prepared for the aftermath. It became a defining moment from which the country never truly recovered. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman, this unflinching narrative puts readers on the ground in Pearl Harbor through the stories of real people who experienced the attack and its aftereffects. It alternates between the sweeping views and fateful decisions of leaders such as FDR and on-the-ground accounts from soldiers and sailors of all backgrounds as well as an array of other unique participants and observers. Attacked! sheds new, compelling light onto a history we think we know, what it means to be American, and the enduring lessons from an event we never saw coming.
Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain from Tech
by Erica B. MarcusTechnology surrounds us every day: a phone alarm wakes us up, an electronic calendar tracks assignment deadlines, GPS directs us to the new dentist’s office, social media keeps us connected to friends and family, and streaming platforms make sure we’re never without something new to binge-watch. Our devices and apps can make life much more convenient and entertaining. But for years, scientists have warned that too much screen time may have negative effects on our health. With portable devices and remote learning, it is even more difficult to put down electronics. Being intentional about how and when to unplug can help teens and young adults to protect their physical and mental wellbeing in a world where screens and technology are increasingly becoming necessities rather than just conveniences. Attention Hijacked offers a roadmap for those deciding how they want to deal with technology, exploring the ways technology affects the individual, dispelling common misinformation, and using this knowledge to make personalized decisions. Page Plus links in the book lead to mindfulness and meditation audio clips. Using mindfulness techniques, this book gives readers the power to take charge of their technology use.
Atty in Love
by Tim LocketteA tender and funny contemporary young adult follow-up to the highly praised Atty at Law, Atty in Love explores first love and includes an interview with a real-life animal rights lawyer.When feisty 13 year old Atticus Peale meets a mysterious boy in her Alabama town, she has to make a tough choice between her values as an activist and her first real love.Atticus T. Peale—Atty for short—is thirteen and a self-described advocate for animals. She&’s also a vegetarian atheist in the heart of the Deep South&’s bible belt, where ribs and guns and church are a way of life, and euthanizing animals is just the way they&’ve always dealt with strays.Having already been to court to save her dog Easy, Atty spends a lot of her free time designing plans for a no-kill-shelter in her small Alabama town while juggling school work, hanging out with her best friend Reagan, and battling &“the blues.&” But when Atty meets a mysterious boy at the county fair, her world begins to crumble. As it becomes increasingly clear that this boy—with his wild hair and rough hands--works with a captive animal, Atty must choose between her own values and the boy she's fallen for.Atty in Love is about the tough choices that arise when two principled people disagree. It is also a story about what it means to, as Atty likes to say, &“contain multitudes&”—to love both men and women, to defend your mixed-race family in the American South, to care for someone who experiences the world in fundamentally different ways than you do. Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, the book includes an interview with the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic&’s real-life animal law expert Katherine Meyer.
Audacious (Young Adult Novels)
by Gabrielle PrendergastSixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a younger friend, the fallout spreads throughout Ella's life, threatening to destroy her already-fragile family. Told entirely in verse, Audacious is a brave, funny and hard-hitting portrait of a girl who embodies the word audacity.
August and Everything After
by Jennifer DoktorskiOne last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance.Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future—or feel as if she even deserves one—when her best friend is dead?Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
by Marilyn NelsonA Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education A Black Caucus ALA Children & Young Adult Award Winner A CCBC Children&’s Choice • A CBC Teacher Favorite This powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance. Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World&’s Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. After being denied an artists&’ fellowship abroad on the basis of race, Augusta Savage worked to advance equal rights in the arts. And yet popular history has forgotten her name. Deftly written and brimming with photographs of Savage&’s stunning sculpture, this is an important portrait of an exceptional artist who, despite the limitations she faced, was compelled to forge a life through art and creativity. Features an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Horn Book • Kirkus Reviews • School Library Journal • Bank Street College ★ "A stunning portrait of artistic genius and Black history in America." —Booklist, starred review ★ "A wonderful addition to young people&’s literature on African American artists." —Horn Book, starred review ★ "In a rich biography in verse, Nelson (A is for Oboe) gives voice to the Black sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), a key Harlem Renaissance figure." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "Nelson&’s arresting poetry, which is accompanied by photographs of Savage&’s work, dazzles as it experiments with form. … A lyrical biography from a master of the craft." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A master poet breathes life and color into this portrait of a historically significant sculptor and her remarkable story." —School Library Journal, starred review
Augustine Came to Kent
by Barbara Willard Mary Beth OwensIt is the year 597 and Pope Gregory is sending a select number of his monks, led by Fr. Augustine, to re-evangelize England. Young Wolf, born in that land but raised in Rome, accompanies his father, Wolfstan, who goes as a guide and interpreter. Though the King of Kent's wife is a Christian, the missionaries from Rome do not know whether they will be welcomed, tolerated or martyred. In a story full of adventure, Wolf meets Fritha, a Saxon girl whose life and destiny are soon closely bound up with his own. Events, significant in the history of Christianity, are vividly brought to life by this veteran writer of historical fiction.
Aunt Hilda Bock and the Red Snapper Inn
by Mary Tucker Leanne FlemingThe life of young Kelly-Jane is turned upside down when her Aunt Hilda Bock comes to stay.Kelly-Jane is ten-and-a-half years old and thinks that life can?t get any worse. The kids at school don?t like her, her teacher is mad with her and even the school principal thinks she?s a loser. And then Kelly-Jane?s Aunt Hilda Bock from Humpty Doo arrives, and everything changes. She even has to share her bedroom with her crazy aunt! But when she is given a special amulet to hang around her neck, Kelly-Jane begins to wonder if Aunt Hilda Bock has special magical powers. Can she solve Kelly-Jane?s problems? And what is the secret of the Red Snapper Inn? Aunt Hilda Bock and the Red Snapper Inn is a wonderfully creative children?s tale from much-loved writer MARY TUCKER.
Aunt Jen (Caribbean Writers Ser.)
by Ramsay RamsayThere have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.Written as a series of letters from the child Sunshine to her absent mother, Aunt Jen traces the changing attitudes of a child entering adulthood as she tries to understand the truth behind her mother's departure, and make sense of her relationship with her family. Aunt Jen migrated to England as part of the Windrush generation, and Sunshine's letters, written in the early 1970s, reveal something of the emotional as well as the physical gulf between those who left and those who remained behind. A companion novel to Letters Home, Aunt Jen is a painfully one-sided correspondence, revealing the complex inheritance we pass on to our children.Suitable for readers aged 14 and above.
Aurora Rising: Previously published as The Prefect
by Alastair ReynoldsPreviously published as THE PREFECT. A rollercoaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of REVELATION SPACE: an interstellar thriller where nothing - and no one - is what they seem ...Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn't now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny.Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it.'An adroit and fast-paced blend of space opera and police procedural, original and exciting' George R. R. Martin
Aussie Angels 1: Okay Koala
by Margaret ClarkThere's trouble in school when the Angels get a new principal and a new teacher. And it seems that suddenly Greash and Foxie are the teacher's pets. Pests, more like it. Sneaky deeds with Feral the ferret get the twins busted, but wombats are involved in the situation too, and Mike and Meg need to find out how. Whatever the answer, you can bet Greash and Foxie are up to no good. OKAY KOALA is the first book in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 10: Dollar for a Dolphin
by Margaret ClarkThere's a pod of dolphins in the bay and Meg and Mike's teacher Ms Lee gets the kids involved in the "Adopt-a-Dolphin" scheme. Everyone brings a dollar so they can support the dolphins and go on a dolphin-watching trip. And nothing can spoil the most perfect day out, not even when the money disappears, and Greash and Foxie are the prime suspects, as usual. DOLLAR FOR DOLPHIN is the tenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 11: Dog on the Job
by Margaret ClarkAnimal Haven is a temporary home for all sorts of Australian wildlife, although there are a few permanent residents as well, like Oscar the owl, Fur Bag the possum, Cinnamon the koala and Alice the labrador. Meg and Mike live there, too, and they work so hard to help their parents rescue and look after the animals that the locals at Jeff's Creek have nicknamed them the Aussie Angels. Trying to get some attention from the Aussie Angels, Mike and Meg, can be a tough job, even when you're the top dog at Animal Haven. Alice the labrador is surrounded by orphaned wallabies and possums, and then there's that camel and emu and there are all the other residents and visitors! But Alice is determined to carve out her own career. She can smell trouble in the air, and her motto is always "Have nose, will travel". But Alice's travels lead her into some frightening adventures. DOG ON THE JOB is the eleventh instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 12: Mouse Pad
by Margaret ClarkThe Aussie Angels are back and their mission is clear: return an endangered dunnart to its colony and natural habitat. But when the Angels set out to return the critter, everything turns to disaster ? mysterious bike tracks lead to an old hut and old enemies have their way. With no dial tone on the mobile, and Carol the Camel in strife, how will the Mike and Meg ever get themselves out of danger? MOUSE PAD is the twelfth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 13: Camel Breath
by Margaret ClarkCarol the camel is tired of the animals and humans at Animal Haven teasing her about her yellow teeth and bad breath. So when she finds out that the dental caravan is visiting the local school, she takes off on a safari in search of clean teeth. But on the way she discovers a rare native orchid. CAMEL BREATH is the thirteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 14: Duck for Luck
by Margaret ClarkWhen a flock of wild ducks move into the swampy area near Animal Haven, everyone is excited. But among them is one pure white duck. The mysterious white duck seems quite out of place amongst the wild flock and Eddy the cheeky, sulphur-crested cockatoo decides that the Green family should adopt it. But Elsie the emu is feeling quite miffed and has other ideas! DUCK FOR LUCK is the fourteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 15: Owl Express
by Margaret ClarkOscar the owl feels left out because when all the action's on, he's fast asleep. He plans to stay awake all day and only sleep at night, but it'll never work. So someone has to make him feel important, fast! OWL EXPRESS is the fifteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 16: Pups 4 Sale
by Margaret ClarkEveryone at Animal Haven is stunned when Alice has eight pups: four golden and four black labradors! Clearly, the father is Lex, the pedigree black lab from down the road. But before long the pups get out of control and need training - and good homes. Meg and Mike find trouble at puppy school, however, and when they try to organise homes for the pups, the Angels discover that some families and their motives are not very honest. PUPS 4 SALE is the sixteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 17: Kidding Around
by Margaret ClarkWhen that little Aussie devil Mark goes to a birthday party at a nearby farm, he is delighted to find that the family has a herd of goats. He falls in love with two energetic kids and names one Butter (because he has tiny bumps on his head where the horns are growing) and the other one Cup (because she has a cup-shaped patch on her back). With Alice's help, he smuggles his new friends into Animal Haven, much to the disgust of Carol the camel. But how is he ever going to keep their presence a secret? KIDDING AROUND is the seventeenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 18: Shark in the Dark
by Margaret ClarkMum is out on the surfboard and narrowly misses being attacked by a shark - or maybe it was just a false alarm. When Alice the labrador falls off the rocks and nearly becomes shark bait though, Meg and Mike, the Aussie Angels, aren't so sure! Meg is terrified, but some visiting scientists give her the chance to face her fears. SHARK IN THE DARK is the eighteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.