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Action! How Movies Began

Action! How Movies Began

by Meghan McCarthy
Illustrated by Meghan McCarthy

Publishers: Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster, 2022
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9781534452305

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 7-11

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, McCarthy

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer

by Diane Stanley
Illustrated by Jessie Hartland

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2016
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781481452496

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-10

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 Lovelace

Balloons Over Broadway:  The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

by Melissa Sweet
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Publishers: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin , 2011
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780547199450

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-10

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 791 Sweet

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

by Russell Freedman

Publisher: Holiday House, 2013
Pages: 86
ISBN: 9780823423743

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 9-13

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 Franklin

Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life

Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life

by Candace Fleming

Publishers: Atheneum, Anne Schwartz Book, 2003
Pages: 120
ISBN: 0689835493

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 10 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 Franklin

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin

Publishers: Roaring Brook, Flash Point, 2012
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9781596434875

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 13 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 623 Sheinkin

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon

Publisher: Dial, 2012
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780803735118

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-9

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 621 Kamkwamba

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Illustrated by Anna Hymas

Publisher: Dial, 2015
Pages: 293
ISBN: 9780803740808

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 12 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 Kamkwamba

Breakthrough! How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever

Breakthrough! How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever

by Jim Murphy

Publisher: Clarion, 2015
Pages: 129
ISBN: 9780547821832

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 13 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 617 Murphy

Doll-E 1.0

Doll-E 1.0

by Shanda McCloskey
Illustrated by Shanda McCloskey

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2018
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780316510318

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-8

CCBC Location: Picture Book, McCloskey