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Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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Don't let the barber pull your teeth : could you survive medieval medicine? 2012 Medieval Life (Eyewitness) 2011 Medieval Castle Adventure Crafts 2011 Medieval science (500-1500) 2011
Did castles have bathrooms? : and other questions about the Middle Ages 2011 Weapons of war : tales of ancient & Medieval warfare : from axes to war hammers, weapons from the age of hand-to-hand fighting 2010 Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village 2007 Archers, alchemists, and ninety-eight other medieval jobs you might have loved or loathed 2003
Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Town 2007 Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages 1998 Beowulf Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Whittington Crispin at the Edge of the World The Door in the Wall Newbery29 The Executioner's Daughter 2000
The Midwife's Apprentice 1995 Newbery96 Ramsay Scallop 1994

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Biomes

Biomes

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Library Materials

Understanding Biomes Amazing Biome Projects You Can Build Yourself Hidden in the Grass

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Nervous System

Nervous System

The Control Center

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Science Factfile

  • The human brain is growing! In 1860 the average weight of a male brain was 3 lbs. Now a man?s brain weighs an average of 3 1/8 lbs.
  • There are around 30,000 million nerve cells in the body.
  • A nerve cell can transmit 1,000 nerve impulses each second.

Websites & Books

The Nervous System Nervous System Nerves It's All In Your Head

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The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games

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The 2012 London Olympics Coubertin's Olympics Eyewitness Olympians Olympics History
Inside the Olympics Freeze Frame a Photographic History of the Winter Games Great African Americans in the Olympics Murder at the 1972 Olympics in Munich
Hockey Miracle on Ice Special Olympics Touch the Sky The World's Greatest Olympians

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The Great Depression

The Great Depression

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Migrant mother : how a photograph defined the Great Depression 2011 The 1930s : from the Great Depression to The wizard of Oz 2006 Black Tuesday : the stock market crash of 1929 1995 Children of the Great Depression 2005
Welcome to Kit's world, 1934 : growing up during America's Great Depression 2002 Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp 1992 Going to School During the Great Depression 2002 Bud Not Buddy 1999 Newbery2000
Dragon Road 2008 Out of the Dust 1997 Newbery98 Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry 1976 Newbery77 The Year Down Yonder 2000 Newbery2001

 

Here are some stories about the Great Depression – the characters all live Indiana:
Chig and the Second Spread Indiana 2003 Christmas after all : the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift 2001 Indiana The Dark Didn't Catch Me Indiana The Mighty Miss Malone Indiana 2012

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