Explore Science in

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Inside Biosphere 2 by Mary Kay Carson, the story of living life under glass, sealed in a self-contained engineered  ecosystem.  Find out how 8 scientists did this for two years and what they discovered.  Could you?

 

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Explore new languages in

How to Speak Dog.  Okay, maybe you won’t really learn a new language, but you will get some clues on what your dog may be trying to tell you when he barks or doesn’t bark, when he’s happy or not at all happy.  And it has lots of great pictures, too.  You can speak Dog!

 

Explore History through

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Courage and Defiance by Deborah Hopkinson, the story of young people in Denmark who took a stand against Nazi Germany’s occupation of their country by becoming spies and saboteurs and finding ways to hide Jews from the Nazis.

We Fought Back by Allan Zullo – the story of teen resistors who thwarted the German army by blowing up trains, attacking convoys and passing messages.

What would you do?  Could you?