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The way things work
by David Macaulay  Publisher Comments From levers to lasers, from cameras to computers, this 384-page volume is a remarkable overview of the machines and inventions that shape our lives, amusingly presented with a large dose of Macaulay's wit and personality....
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Sale: $6.98 Hardcover List Price $15.95
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Tools
by Taro Miura Publisher Comments Who do you think of when you see a hammer and a saw? A carpenter! What about a shovel and a watering can? In Taro Miura's deceptively simple book children will discover more than sixty different tools, both familiar and new. Even the youngest readers...
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So You Want to Be an Inventor?
by Judith St. George Publisher Comments This newest installment in the series that began with the Caldecott Medal-winning "So You Want to Be President?" looks at some of the world's most renowned--and some not so well-known--explorers. Full color....
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $24.99
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Cool Stuff and How It Works
by Chris Woodford Publisher Comments From microchips and iPods to robots in the human bloodstream, "Cool Stuff and How It Works" takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the world of modern technology. Full color....
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Used: $3.95 Hardcover List Price $16.95
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Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions
by Richard Platt Publisher Comments Children can't resist following along to find out what happens in this original timeline treats each subject as a visual thread and makes any history lesson memorable....
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Oh Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
by Joy Masoff Publisher Comments Kids love stuff that's gross. From the liquids, solids, and gases--especially the gases!--or their own bodies to the creepy, crawly, slimy, slithery, fetid, and feculent phenomena in the world at large, kids with a curious bent just can't get enough. Oh,...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! #10: X-Traordinary X-Tremes
by Scholastic Publisher Comments What's creamy, cold, served on a cone, and tastes like fresh eel? Give up? It's eel flavored ice cream! How would you like to get a job sniffing armpits? Maybe you'd like to play a game of basketball where all of your teammates are donkeys? Sound a bit...
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Wonders of the World (Kingfisher Knowledge)
by Philip Steele Publisher Comments From the ingenuity of ancient engineering to the innovation of modern marvels, Wonders of the World reveals the greatest statues and structures that the world has ever seen. This striking book covers the ancient wonders, the later historical wonders, and...
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Beastly Tales: Yeti, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster (DK Eyewitness Readers: Level 3)
by Malcolm Yorke Publisher Comments This new multi-level Eyewitness reading program uses DK's dramatic non-fiction style to entice children into reading. From ducklings and dinosaurs, to farm animals and firefighters, the subjects have been carefully chosen to appeal to beginning readers...
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Used: $19.95 Hardcover List Price $35.00
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The New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay 
From Powells.com Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Black and White, author-illustrator David Macaulay has more than demonstrated his playful humor, imagination, and technical know-how in over fifteen books for children. His greatest success so far, though,...
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Steven Caney's Invention Book
by Steven Caney Publisher Comments You Can Build a Better Mousetrap You can also rig up a Bubble Bath Bucket using a tin can, a shoelace, and a bar of soap. You can make a bookend for records that is a record, and a Bookshelf Safe for valuables that is a book. There's a hammock to fashion...
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The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book
by Isabel Wyatt Publisher Comments These magical tales take us through the highlights of the year, through festivals and birthdays....
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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be
by Charlotte Fol Jones Publisher Comments Piggy banks, silly putty, potato chips and frisbees are all things that were invented by mistake. <BR>Includes a bibliography. An IRA-CBC Children's Choice....
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Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years
by Elaine Pascoe Publisher Comments Hoaxes are meant to fool the world--and some people fall for them. Would you? Crop circles. Aliens on earth. Fairies caught on film. Giant cats. What do these phenomena have in common? They are all hoaxes. Elaine Pascoe presents well-researched...
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Atlantis: The Lost City? (DK Eyewitness Readers: Level 4)
by Dk Publisher Comments This Level 4 book is perfect for proficient readers. Atlantis: The Story of the Lost Continent probes the question of truth or myth. Follow the evolution of a mystery that has captured the human imagination from ancient Greece to the present. These...
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For Boys Only: The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever
by Marc Aronson Publisher Comments Featuring cool information on how to land an airplane in an emergency or fight off a shark, this volume is filled to the brim with information on just about everything boys are interested in. Includes a special solve-the-code puzzle on random pages...
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New: $27.25 Library Bound
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Haunted Houses (Encounters with)
by Kelli M. Brucken Publisher Comments During a storm at sea, a captain glimpses an eerie figure guiding his ship to safety. Is it a pirate's ghost, or a mind playing tricks? In this innovative series, eyewitness accounts are paired with alternative explanations and other elements of...
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I Love Tools!
by Philemon Sturges Publisher Comments Tools can cut things apart . . . . . . or put them back together again. You can use tools to make almost anything! From the clamps that hold down the wood for the very first cut through the paintbrush that adds the finishing touches, this book is full of...
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Monsters of Mystery (Unsolved Mysteries)
by Sue Hamilton Publisher Comments - Full-color Photographs - Full-color Maps - Quotes - Index...
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New: $27.95 Library
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Monsters (Unexplained)
by J. M. Sertori Publisher Comments The topics in this series hold a special fascination for all young readers. Whether it's scary ghosts and monsters or mysterious UFOs, kids will be drawn to these high-interest books. Lively text, thought-provoking sidebars, and hundreds of vibrant, full-...
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