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Charlie Thorne volume 1
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English
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2025 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
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"Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn't old enough to drive. And now it's up to her to save the world ... Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth--or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie...
3) Caught
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The missing volume 5
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English
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
4) Einstein
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"A world-changing equation and a wild head of hair are all most of us know about one of history's greatest minds, despite his being a household name in his lifetime and an icon in ours. But while the broad outlines of what Einstein did are well known, who he was remained hidden from view to most ... even his closest friends. This is the story of a scientist who made many mistakes, and even when he wanted to be proven wrong, was often right in the...
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The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for America--a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It was the last season of unbridled hope for peace and prosperity; by Labor Day, the Nazis were in Poland. And nothing would come to symbolize this transformation from acute optimism to fear and dread more than the 1939 New York World's Fair.
A glorious vision of the future, the Fair introduced television, the fax machine,
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Discusses the life story of Albert Einstein and his many exciting discoveries in physics. His theories of special and general relativity forever changed the way that humans understand the workings of the universe. A true man of science, Einstein was also dedicated to helping causes he believed in.
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"Gravity causes an apple to fall to the ground and keeps the moon in orbit around Earth. But it can also trap light for infinity in a dying star and ripple across the cosmos carrying the news of a massive collision between two distant black holes. With accessible language and breathtaking NASA images, students will explore the theory of gravity, from Newton's law of universal gravitation to Einstein's general relativity and beyond. This text supports...
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Gané el premio Novel en 1921. Publiqué más de trescientos artículos científicos y cambié la manera en que se entiende la física moderna. Creí en la paz apasionadamente, pero jugué un papel importante en la Seunda Guerra Munidal. Siempre tuve una gran imaginación y nunca temí cometer errores. Muchas veces me llamaron raro y loco, pero ahora suelen llamarme genio. Soy Albert Einstein.
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"Albert Einstein said his first ideas about relativity came from looking in the mirror as a teenager and wondering what it would be like to travel on a beam of light. This is the story of that journey" -- from publisher's web site.
"Journey By Starlight follows Albert Einstein and his traveling companion through space and time as they travel on a beam of light from a star 3,200 light-years away to Earth. Along the way, Einstein explains the science...