Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2013

New Hot Nonfiction!

Hey YAs,

Still haven't finished that summer reading?  Bet the one you need is a nonfiction book! Check out these new nonfiction books being put out today!

Super Pop! Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make it Through the Holidays by Daniel Harmon

Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players, Parents, and Coaches by Cynthia Lair

The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond by Steven L. Kent

Spook: Science  Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys by Karen Bush Gibson

The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen

Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese

Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur Benjamin

My Crazy Beautiful Life by Kesha

A Million Little Bricks: The Unofficial Illustrated History of the Lego Phenomenon by Sarah Herman

Ideas That Changed the World: Incredible Inventions and the Stories Behind Them 
The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book by Paul Ruditis

Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story by Justin Bieber

Study Smart, Study Less by Anne Crossman

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Wright Brothers Day

Welcome YAs!  Today commemorates the first successful flight of the airplane built by Orville and Wilbur Wright.  Today would be a good day to brush up on your facts on the first flights.  Here is what we have that might interest you~

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I think a good way to celebrate today would be to fly a model airplane.  Too expensive?  Try the cheap route, make a paper airplane!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Presents for my YAs! December books!

Here are the new books for December (its like Christmas came 25 days early!)

Yellow Mini by Lori Weber
Mark, Mr. Popularity, tools around town in the yellow mini left to him by his recently deceased father; his new girlfriend Stacey can't believe her luck, but doesn't understand Mark's odd need to disappear into the woods from time to time; her former friends Mary and Annabelle try to find their place in the world - shy Mary transforms into a concert pianist and Annabelle into an world-changing activist with the idealistic and adoring Christopher by her side.

 Ashes by Ilsa Bick
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

 Theodore Boone: The Abduction by John Grisham
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.

 A Web of Air by Philip Reeve
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.