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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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Action! How Movies Began 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Breakthrough! How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever 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 Add To My List Copy Link To Clipboard Send Link Via Email Doll-E 1.0 1 2 3 4 5 Next >