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Books in Naptime Adventures series

  • Smithsonian Adventures in Space

    Courtney Acampora

    Paperback (Silver Dolphin Books, Dec. 20, 2016)
    Smithsonian Adventures in Space contains everything young space explorers need to learn about the planets and beyond. After reading about the planets and space exploration through the Smithsonian's collection, kids can use the shaped box to create their own Moon landing scene with dioramas, cardstock models, and figurines. Whether it's Jupiter's moons or Neil Armstrong's space suit, Smithsonian Adventures in Space contains everything kids need for an intergalactic adventure!
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  • An Island Far From Home

    John Donahue

    Paperback (Carolrhoda Books ®, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Joshua Loring is the twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the Civil War. This compelling novel conveys how Joshua gains new insights into the realities of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins to correspond with a young Confederate prisoner. In the end, he risks his life to travel to the island where his new friend is held captive.
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  • Annie Quinn in America

    Mical Schneider

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books, July 1, 2001)
    To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of their family to America.
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  • Animal Adventures: Sharks

    Cynthia Stierle

    Paperback (Silver Dolphin Books, June 30, 2020)
    With Animal Adventures: Sharks, kids can go on an amazing journey to encounter the fantastic creatures that prowl the ocean. Animal Adventures: Sharks takes you beneath the ocean’s surface to meet the many sharks that lurk in the depths. Have fun while learning, meet the sharks—large and small, gentle and fierce—through colorful illustrations and fascinating facts, and then build a diorama. Everything you need to explore the ocean is right here. This unique set with a lenticular cover includes a book full of colorful illustrations and intriguing facts about sharks, plus 3-D animal models and a diorama with reusable stickers. Journey to all the world’s oceans to learn everything you need to know about these mysterious creatures. Animal Adventures: Sharks offers a unique learning experience as you meet wild and exotic animals face-to-face!
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  • Adventures in Science: The Human Body

    Courtney Acampora

    Paperback (Silver Dolphin Books, Dec. 12, 2017)
    Which part of the brain is in charge of creativity? What is the smallest human muscle? Take a trip inside the human body and discover the amazing systems that allow us to move, breathe, and speak. After reading about everything from the digestive tract to the cornea, kids can assemble their own plastic skeleton and view the systems of the body in a layered cardstock model. With 20 fact cards, 2 sticker sheets, and a double-sided poster, this interactive kit is a perfect primer for learning about how the human body works.
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  • Adventures in Science: Human Body

    Courtney Acampora

    Paperback (Silver Dolphin Books, Aug. 4, 2020)
    Learn about the human body—from head to toe!Take a trip inside the human body and discover the amazing systems that allow us to move, breathe, and speak. Adventures in Science: The Human Body is the perfect primer for learning about how the human body works. After reading the included book, children can assemble their own 12-inch plastic skeleton, use the 30+ stickers to put the organs and bones in the proper places on the double-sided poster, and test their knowledge with the included 20 fact cards.
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  • Firestorm

    Jan Neubert Schultz

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books, Feb. 1, 2002)
    Maggie hates moving from beautiful Superior, Wisconsin, to dusty Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894, until she almost loses her family to a forest fire that sweeps through the town.
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  • Mythological Adventures: Dragons

    Megan Roth, Janos Orban

    Paperback (Silver Dolphin Books, Oct. 11, 2016)
    Mythological Adventures: Dragons offers a unique learning experience for kids as they get the chance to meet different dragons face-to-face. They'll have fun learning while they encounter Western and Eastern dragons—large and small, gentle and fierce—with vibrant illustrations and fascinating facts. Then, kids can build a diorama of their very own and add to the fantastical world of dragons.This unique kit includes a book full of colorful illustrations and intriguing facts about dragons, plus 3-D animal models and a diorama with reusable stickers.Explore the world of dragons and learn everything you need to know about these mythological creatures.Mythological Adventures: Dragons will take you on an amazing journey to discover the secrets of dragon lore.
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  • Horse Sense: The Story of Will Sasse, His Horse Star, and the Outlaw Jesse James

    Jan Neubert Schultz

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books, June 1, 2001)
    When his beloved mare is stolen by the James gang after an attempted bank robbery in the nearby town of Northfield, Will joins the posse looking for the outlaws.
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  • The Girl-Son

    Anne E. Neuberger

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books, Dec. 1, 1994)
    A story based on the life of Induk Pahk, a Korean educator, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in the early twentieth century in that country
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  • Come Morning

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    Library Binding (Carolrhoda Books, Aug. 1, 1995)
    Twelve-year-old Freedom, the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes over his father's work in the Underground Railroad when his father disappears
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  • The Magician's Apprentice

    Sidney Rosen, Dorothy Rosen

    Library Binding (Carolrhoda Books, Feb. 1, 1994)
    In 1264, Jean of Toulouse, a young French student and friar accused of heresy by the Inquisition, is sent to Oxford to spy on the scholarly monk, Roger Bacon, who is suspected of being a heretic for his advanced scientific ideas
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