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  • The Kids Book of Black History in Canada

    Illustrated by Arden Taylor ...
    Series series Kids Books of
    An important and comprehensive exploration of 400 years of Black history in Canada.This narrative journey through Canadian Black history begins with the arrival in 1604 of Mathieu Da Costa, the first known African in Canada, and continues through the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing fight for social justice. It covers Canada’s legacy of slavery, the Black Loyalists, the Underground ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Communities Need Engineers

    Helping Humans Live Together

    by Helen Liang ...
    Illustrated by Arden Taylor ...
    Series Book 14 - Orca Timeline
    Community is essential for humans. But living together comes with challenges—challenges often solved by engineers!Access to clean drinking water? Engineers did that. Managing garbage? Engineers too. Safe and comfortable places to live with electricity and running water? You got it, engineers. Engineers are also behind the communication and transportation networks that keep our communities ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The True Story of Vanilla

    How Edmond Albius Made History

    by Ann Richards ...
    Illustrated by Arden Taylor ...
    Series Book 3 - Orca Biography
    ★ “Moving and bittersweet…Discusses the reality of slavery and the racial violence and prejudice formerly enslaved individuals experienced.” — Booklist, starred reviewIn 1841, a 12-year-old enslaved boy, Edmond Albius, made history when he discovered how to hand-pollinate vanilla plants using a bamboo twig.Until that time, only bees in Mexico could pollinate the plant—botanists couldn’t figure out ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Walls

    The Long History of Human Barriers and Why We Build Them

    Illustrated by Arden Taylor ...
    Series Book 5 - Orca Timeline
    Building walls that separate us from others is as old as humanity.People have built walls to keep others out for thousands of years, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to security fences along the US-Mexico border. But did you know they've also been built to keep people in, to grow food, to control nature and to collect taxes? Sometimes they've helped people and kept communities safe, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    Illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski ...
    Just 50,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches far out into the cosmos. How did we get to where we are today?With lively text and colorful illustrations, From Then to Now explains how individual societies struggled to find their own paths, despite war, disease, slavery, natural disasters, and the ... Read more

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  • Accidental Archaeologists: True Stories of Unexpected Discoveries

    by Sarah Albee ...
    Science meets real-life mystery in this adventurous look at incredible unexpected finds that changed history.Secret treasures are buried all around us -- you just have to look for them!Accidental Archaeologists takes you on an adventure through time to relive some of the coolest surprise discoveries by totally ordinary people all over the world. Meet:- The cowboy who found an ancient skeleton- A ... Read more

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  • Children's Illustrated History Atlas

    by DK ...
    Series series Children's Illustrated Atlas
    Learn about incredible world history in this first-ever history atlas for children ages 7-9.Young history buffs will love this time-traveling adventure! This beautiful history atlas helps children learn about world history, all the way from the first humans leaving Africa right up to how the world looks now, with a modern world map. Journey around the world as you learn its history, with maps ... Read more

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  • Absolutely Everything! Revised and Expanded

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  • Concrete: From the Ground Up

    Illustrated by Steve Light ...
    Series series Material Marvels
    A stylish, eye-opening, utterly engaging, and often wry look at one of the marvels of the material world, from the ground up.From a lowly mixture of stone, sand, water, and cement have sprung sidewalks, streets, and skyscrapers, sturdy lighthouses and magnificent palaces, long bridges and massive dams. In ancient building practices, in modern engineering, and in the architecture of the future, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Uncovering Ancient World Wisdom

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    The Lucky story

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