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  • Team Moon

    How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    "This behind-the-scenes look at the first Apollo moon landing has the feel of a public television documentary in its breadth and detail" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!

    The Inventive Rube Goldberg—A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Illustrated by Shanda McCloskey ...
    A 2025 Science Friday Best Science Book for KidsA joyfully illustrated picture book biography of Rube Goldberg for STEM-loving children and the many people who enjoy doing simple tasks the hard way.Award-winning author Catherine Thimmesh’s irresistibly engaging text and artist Shanda McCloskey’s energetic, cartoon-style artwork introduce readers to the life and creative legacy of Rube Goldberg, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Camp Panda

    Helping Cubs Return to the Wild

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Robert F. Sibert Honor Award winner"Complementing Thimmesh's thoughtful, engagingly written text are many arrestingly adorable color photographs of pandas in training and in the wild. A timely, uplifting story." —Kirkus, starred reviewFrom the Sibert medal–winning author of Team Moon and the bestselling Girls Think of Everything comes a riveting, timely account of panda conservation efforts in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Girls Solve Everything

    Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.Women all over the globe are asking questions that affect lives and creating businesses that answer them. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Girls Think of Everything

    Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?Features ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Madam President

    The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Illustrated by Douglas B. Jones ...
    When will the U.S. elect a woman for president?Catherine Thimmesh’s inspiring look at the role of women in American politics—past, present, and future—is now available with updated sections on Hillary Rodham Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, and Nancy Pelosi. From the time our government was being formed, women have fought their way from behind the scenes to the center of power and decision making. Why ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Baby Like You

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Sibert Medalist Catherine Thimmesh connects babies across our ecosystem with compelling photographs and a poetic text that shows how the everyday milestones babies take parallel animals in the world. For fans of Zooborns. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Girls Solve Everything

    Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.Women all over the globe are asking questions that affect lives and creating businesses that answer them. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Girls Think of Everything

    Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Narrated by Karen Zippler ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Did you know Toll House Cookies were created accidentally in an old Toll House in Massachusetts by a woman hurrying to make a tasty snack for her patrons? And did you know that Liquid Paper (or white-out) was invented because of one small typing mistake? Often overshadowed by famous male inventors, women have also made many significant contributions to science and industry. This audiobook profiles ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Team Moon

    How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Narrated by Andy Paris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 40 min

    When three heroic men traveled aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft bound for the moon, the entire world sat glued to their television sets in suspense. But few knew just how much it took to get that far. To put a man on the moon, thousands of people diligently worked behind the scenes. Countless preparations had to be made and no detail, however small, could be overlooked-the lives of the crewmen were ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Plastic

    A Toxic Love Story

    by Susan Freinkel ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and eye ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Curse of Chalion

    by Lois McMaster Bujold ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The World of the Five Gods Series

    Unabridged

    18 hours 42 min

    Lord Cazaril has been, in turn, courtier, castle-warder, and captain; now he is but a crippled ex-galley slave seeking nothing more than a menial job in the kitchens of the Dowager Provincara, the noble patroness of his youth. But Cazaril finds himself promoted to the exalted and dangerous position of tutor to Iselle, the beautiful, fiery sister of the heir to Chalion’s throne.Amidst the decaying ... Read more

    $31.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook