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• +736.982 N - Origami on the Move: Cars, Trucks, Ships, Planes & More by Duy Nguyen
  Provides detailed instructions on paper folding in order to make a variety of transportation vehicles, from trucks to ships.
  



• +741.2 T - Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to be the Artist You've Always Wanted yo be by Kathryn Temple
  Great instructions and suggestions for drawing people, places, and things.
  



• +741.5 R - Cartooning: The Only Cartooning Book You'll Ever Need to be the Artist You've Always Wanted to be by Art Roche
  Describes the attitudes and tools needed to draw caartoons as well as different techniques for creating your own characters and cartoons.



• +745.593 W - Stuff For Your Space by Ellen Warwick
  Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for making a variety of craft projects which girls can use to decorate their rooms.



• +745.61 W - 1-2-3 Calligraphy!: Letters and Projects for Beginners and Beyond by Eleanor Winters
  Easy exercises to learn calligraphy.
  

• +782.421 K - I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz
  Presents fourteen silly verses designed to be sung to the tunes of old favorites such as "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Farmer in the Dell."



• +793.7 H - Kids' Silliest Knock-Knocks by Jacqueline Horsfall
  An alphabetical collection of the silliest knock knock jokes ever.



• +793.735 K - Kids' Kookiest Riddles by Steve Charney
  



• +793.735 L - How To Be the Funniest Kid In the Whole Wide World (Or Just in Your Class) by Jay Leno
  



• +818.02 B - You Must be Joking! Lots of Cool Jokes edited by Paul Brewer
  A collection of over two hundred jokes and riddles, grouped by subject, plus tips on writing, learning, and telling jokes.

• +635 M - How Does Your Garden Grow?: Great Gardening for Green-Fingered Kids by Clare Matthews
  Great gardening for green-fingered kids.
  



• +636.088 G - Pet Science: 50 Purr-Fectly Woof-Worthy Activities for You & Your Pets by Veronika Gunter
  Examines activities you can do with your pets.
  



• +641.512 B - The Cooking Book by Jane Bull
  Illustrations and simple text provide instructions for creating a variety of foods.
  
  Also Available In:

  Español



• +652.8 J - Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko
  Presents a guide to codemaking, codebreaking, and their role in history, describing different types of codes and ciphers, discussing codebreaking and concealment techniques, and including brief stories about exciting moments in the history of the art.



• +793.8 B - Kids Make Magic! The Complete Guide to Becoming an Amazing Magician by Ron Burgess
  Offers guidelines and tips for putting together a magic act including selecting a wand, mastering official terminology, developing a stage personality, and selecting and performing tricks.

• +511.33 A - You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-Solving Fun by David A. Adler
  Math is made fun with the help of some colorful birds.
  



• +793.74 L - Wacky Word Problems: by Lynette Long
  Games and activities that make math easy and fun.
  



• +793.8 B - It's Not Magic, It's Science!: 50 Science Tricks That Mystify, Dazzle & Astound by Hope Buttitta
  They may seem like magic, but these tricks are all based in science you can learn and use.
  



• +794 K - Games: Learn to Play, Play to Win by Daniel King
  Provides instructions on how to play a range of card and board games, as well as strategy and history of the games.



• +796.2 C - Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood by Veronica Chambers
  The author describes many aspects of jump rope including the role that jump rope played in her own life as a girl in East Harlem in the 1950s.

• +530.078 W - Sports Science: 40 Goal Scoring, High-Flying, Medal-Winning Experiments For Kids by Jim Wiese
  A collection of forty science projects and experiments which are based on sports.
  
  Also Available In:

  Español



• +796 H 2005 - Sports by Tim Hammond
  Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different teams, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.



• +796.334 G - The Kingfisher Soccer Encyclopedia by Clive Gifford
  



• +796.357 W - The Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Boston Weatherford
  



• +796.48 M - Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics by Sue Macy
  A detailed look at the history of the Olympic Games, from their origins in Ancient Greece, through their rebirth in nineteenth century France, to the present, highlighting the contributions of individuals to the Games' success and popularity.

• +398.2 M - Lies and Other Tall Tales by Christopher Myers
  A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.
  



• +398.208 T - Spirits Dark and Light: Supernatural Tales From the Five Civilized Tribes by Tim Tingle
  



• +398.209 C - Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection by F. Isabel Campoy
  Presents the authors' retellings of traditional tales.
  



• +808.831 H - Half-Human edited by Bruce Coville
  A collection of stories about such creatues as mermaids and centaurs, who are part-human and part-animal, and their struggles to understand their true identities.



• +B P332 - How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme Sports by Gary Paulsen
  Culled from the author's memories of growing up in a small town in northern Minnesota in the 1940s and 1950s, these recollections show how Gary and his friends had to make their own fun, from hang gliding to wrestling with a bear.

• +305.4 T - 33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A. by Tonya Bolden
  A collection of essays that profile women, events, and legislation that have had a serious impact on women's rights and freedom in the United States.



• +343.73 G - United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny by Susan Dudley Gold
  



• +910.45 B - Pirates & Smugglers by Moira Butterfield
  An illustrated introduction to the colorful history of pirates, privateers, and smugglers.



• +910.452 P 2005 - Shipwreck by Richard Platt
  Describes the history of shipwrecks, famous wrecks, causes, navigation and rescue techniques, and underwater archeology and the exploration of wrecks.



• +940.1 M - Knights and Castles: Exploring History Through Art by Alex Martin
  Presents a collection of full-color paintings and illustrations depicting the lives of medieval knights on and off the battlefield, life on the land, hunting, festivals and children's games, and the joust.

• +920 B - Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden
  Twenty portraits, written and pictoral, of heroic African-Americans.



• +920.72 K49 - Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
  



• +927.824 G349 - Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music by Holly George-Warren
  Profiles important and influential performers of country and western music, including the Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, and Loretta Lynn.
  



• +973.099 M - The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia by Noah McCullough
  Presents a collection of brief biographical sketches and facts about each president of the United States, arranged in chronological order, from George Washington to George W. Bush.



• +B T966H - Tutankhamun: The Mystery Of the Boy King by Zahi Hawass
  Learn about the life of King Tut, his burial and the fabulous discovery of his tomb
  

• +932 A - Ancient Egypt by Philip Ardagh
  Presents factual information about Ancient Egypt with accompanying mystery story for readers to solve using those facts.



• +932.01 B - Egypt In Spectacular Cross-Section by Stephen Biesty
  Allows readers to get an idea of ancient Egyptian civilization by examining a series of detailed cross-section and cutaway illustrations.
  



• +937.7 D - Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M Deem
  Details the events that occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., focusing on how this information was deduced from the skeletons found by archaeologists at the site.
  



• +951.01 C 2005 - Ancient China by Arthur Cotterell
  Illustrations and text explore the history of Imperial China from its earliest beginnings to the days of the last emperor.



• +976.4 A - Texas by Simon Adams
  An overview of Texas's history, geography, wildlife, and culture featuring over two hundred color photos and illustrations.
  
  Also Available In:

  Español