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Come celebrate the Passport to Spring Break finale! (All Ages)
Saturday, March 22; 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
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Izzy books (Robert Neubecker) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to America from one end to the other to celebrate what makes America amazing.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Calling all adventurers! Are you ready to explore America's 60 amazing national parks? From Acadia's seaside cliffs and coves to Zion's enchanting red valleys, take a journey through the United States' most spectacular and exciting landscapes with America's National Parks from Lonely Planet Kids. With awesome facts, photos and illustrations on every page, you'll discover erupting geysers, exploding volcanoes, howling wolves, soaring eagles, mountains,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two friends -- a Democrat and a Republican -- travel across America "on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation...to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives" (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad. In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Immerse yourself in the wonder and diversity of America's great outdoors with 50 true stories inspired by some of its most iconic national parks. This gift treasury collection gathers real-life stories from parks across the USA, including Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Hawaii Volcanoes, Denali, Everglades, and many, many more. Some tell human tales of triumph, bravery, and feats of endurance and moments of dazzling...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Meet the 50 states in 50 iconic words for things ranging from proud mascots to colorful quirks. Delicious foods, amazing animals, storied skyscrapers It's all here in The 50 States in 50 Words, helping 3-5-year-olds celebrate each state in one small way. Huskies race fast in Alaska, blueberries burst with goodness in Maine, and sailboats bob by in Rhode Island! Younger kids will love recognizing the tiny critters and big, bright sights from their...
14) National parks
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Packed with stunning photography, Eyewitness National Parks explores the history of all 63 US National Parks, and their countless treasures. Become an eyewitness to every US National Park in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of around 35 percent of the country s land. Through this book, explorers ages 9 12 years old can visit each National Park from the icy windswept ranges of Wrangell-St Elias in Alaska to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home--to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America."--Container.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant...
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