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1) Wonder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
2) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Chris Packham explores the evolution of the great ape's brain to reveal how different parts have been adapted over time by its anatomy, ingenuity, and sociability, culminating in one of the most complex brains on the planet. Chris examines how the ability to use two hands asymmetrically sets the great ape apart from other tool-using animals and how social living is linked to the evolution of the amygdala in both humans and our ape cousins. New research...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
In this episode Brian Cox visits South East Asia's 'Ring of Fire'. Attending the annual Day of the Dead in the Philippine highlands, he explores the thin line between life and death, and raises the question: what is life? Brian explains the laws governing energy and reveals life to be a conduit through which energy passes. Visiting a volcano, he demonstrates how the first spark of life may have arisen through a source of energy created by chemical...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Discover the astounding ancient architecture, the history of civilization, and the beauty of our planet in these Wonders of the World. Become an eyewitness to the fascinating architectural feats and natural treasures of the world in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of more than 50 wonders of the world. Children will be mesmerized by human-made landscapes such as the Statue of Liberty to record-breaking natural marvels...
Author
Language
English
Description
The future of magic in the DC Universe is rewritten in Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour, an epic adventure by New York Times best-selling writer James Tynion IV and artists including Jesus Merino, Emanuela Lupacchino and Alvaro Martínez Bueno. Long ago, Hecate, the goddess of magic, stole the powers of other mystic entities and hid them in Earth beings called the Witchmarked. In every generation, Hecate has designated new...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ocean is full of wonders, but creating them has been a bloody battle for over half a billion years, as evermore complex animals fight for survival. They evolved new ways to hunt, overpower and kill and eat each other. And astonishing adaptations to defend themselves, hide and escape detection. Passing those amazing new abilities on to the next generation can be a bruising battle in itself as males fight each other for the right to mate.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Wonder Pets head to India to save a Bengal Tiger who's got a thorn stuck in her paw. Then, travel to Costa Rica for a play date with a Baby Gecko who can't seem to stay out of trouble and help the heroes save a mystery animal. Next, fish out a little Ladybug trapped inside a Venus flytrap and head off to Japan to help a Baby Sea Turtle find a path to the ocean. Last, A gaggle of Goslings need help to fly to the warm south for the winter and Ollie...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wonder Woman and her frenemy, Cheetah, go toe to claw in this flip-it leveled reader--with two stories in one book, featuring the DC Super Hero Girls(TM)! On one side of this two-in-one leveled reader, the fur flies when Wonder Woman and her frenemy, Cheetah, run for student body president. Then flip the book over to find out what makes Cheetah Super Hero High's favorite ferocious feline. Get your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls(TM)--the unprecedented...
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Series
Ever After High (Shannon Hale) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen; Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio; and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school--and...
15) Wonder Woman
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
17) Wonderland Creek
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Language
English
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When her boyfriend dumps her and she loses her job during the Great Depression, librarian Alice Grace Ripley agrees to help out in the library of the tiny town of Acorn, Kentucky, where she finds more than she ever imagined.
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