Catalog Search Results

A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.

Meet GEORGE the flybot, a one-of-a-kind robotic fly on his first official mission! With instructions from Darcy Luna, his boss at Fly on the Wall Inc., GEORGE zips off to the Himalayas to search for a camera that went missing during an ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest summit attempt. GEORGE understands that he might change history by discovering who really conquered Mount Everest. But GEORGE has a mission of his own: to learn more about how humans act...

"Nova is horrified when she learns about the world's plastic problem and the trash islands floating in the ocean. Good thing she has a super-secret lab in her basement. No problem is too big for Supa Nova or for science! But things go spectacularly awry when she creates a plastic-eating monster who won't stop eating and growing. Will Supa Nova be able to save the day -- and the planet?"-- Provided by publisher.

Las muñecas no son para ella, y prefiere los tratados de astronomía y anatomía a los cuentos de príncipes y princesas. Todos la llaman la Pequeña Einstein porque no puede mantenerse alejada de cualquier cosa que suene a ciencia, o tal vez porque, como el gran científico, ¡ella también es un poco despistada! La Pequeña Einstein tiene un gran sueño: ¡ganar el Premio Nobel! Cualquier ocasión es buena para hacer nuevos experimentos, y el extraño...

"Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her...

Shuri thinks sneaking out of the palace with K'Marah will be the most difficult part of her mission, but when they leave Wakanda, the girls discover that not everyone feels the same way about Wakanda.

Shuri and K'Marah rush back to Wakanda in order to attend Challenge Day, but a mysterious enemy blocks them from the palace and threatens to destroy the dwindling heart-shaped herbs.