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  • Animals ATTACK! - Hippos

    Diana Thistle Tremblay

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, Aug. 15, 2003)
    Hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal. Learn why this normally peaceful vegetarian is one of the world's most dangerous animals, and find out how people have learned to live with the hippo.
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  • The KidHaven Science Library - Lasers

    Stuart A Kallen

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, Oct. 23, 2001)
    Lasers are used today in everything from CD players to satellites. Lasers, explores the scientific concepts behind these super tools in easy-to-understand language while exploring the history and development of these miraculous inventions.
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  • Animals ATTACK! - Alligators

    Lorie Garver

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, Sept. 17, 2003)
    From the moment they hatch from their eggs, these reptilian predators are ready to attack. Swimmers, gardeners, and boaters are among the many unlucky people to experience the full force and terror of alligator attacks.
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  • Alexandra Scott

    Gail B Stewart

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, June 23, 2006)
    Presents the life and accomplishments of the young girl who--before her death at age eight--raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research through her lemonade stand, the idea of which spread around the world.
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  • Elizabeth Bloomer

    Jennifer Reed

    Library Binding (Kidhaven Press, Nov. 20, 2006)
    Elizabeth Bloomer's activism is a model for children who become aware of injustice. One of America's youngest spokesperson and peer leader, she is educating and informing people about child labor and what they can do to help.
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  • Inventors and Creators - Stan Lee

    Raymond H. Miller

    Library Binding (KidHaven Press, Jan. 25, 2006)
    As editor of Marvel Comics in the 1960s and 1970s, Stan Lee helped to make the comic book a fixture in American pop culture. In this volume, readers will explore Lee's life and discover how he created The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Spider-Man, and other astonishing superhero sagas.
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  • What Makes Me A... ? - Buddhist

    Charles George

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, April 9, 2004)
    Being Buddhist means following the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, a nobleman born in India nearly 2,500 years ago. His words serve as a guide for living a compassionate life, and as a way of understanding the world around us. Today, nearly 400 million people consider themselves followers of the Buddha.
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  • Inventors and Creators - Jim Henson

    Deanne Durrett

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, April 12, 2002)
    Jim Henson created the Muppets. With infinite talent and inexhaustable patience, he developed a puppeteering technique that brought these characters to life on the television screen. His loveable creations captured the hearts of children and adults around the world while the Sesame Street characters have made learning fun for preschool age children.
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  • Killer Bees

    Toney Allman

    Library Binding (Kidhaven Press, March 15, 2004)
    aDetails the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the Africanized honeybee, sometimes referred to as the killer bee.
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  • Godzilla

    Adam Woog

    Hardcover (KidHaven, June 17, 2004)
    Godzilla, the king of the Japanese movie monsters, has been an enduring pop-culture icon for fifty years. His on-screen presence has evolved from the relatively crude portrayal of a giant rampaging beast in his initial 1954 appearance to his more recent high-tech image, as a defender of humans and an ecological savior. Throughout, Godzilla has been both exciting and terrifying.
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  • History of the World - The American Revolution

    Don Nardo

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, Nov. 12, 2001)
    This concise, clearly-written volume explains how the Revolutionary War came about, as Britain's American colonies increasingly viewed rule by a king in a faraway country as intolerable. The discussion then focuses on some of the major figures and events of the conflict that ended up creating the infant United States.
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  • American History by Decade - The 1980s

    Kris Hirschmann

    Hardcover (KidHaven Press, Oct. 3, 2003)
    During the 1980s, the decades-old Cold War finally came to an end. As this crisis wound down, however, a new one arose as the AIDS virus appeared on the medical scene. Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, and others spawned a fitness revolution, and the music industry was transformed by a new art form: the music video.
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