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Just the thought of Eid makes Amira warm and tingly inside. From wearing new clothes to handing out goody bags at the mosque, Amira can't wait for the festivities to begin.

Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all!

Berries, apples, melons and grapes; oranges, grapefruits, bananas-yum!

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity.

In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space.

When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment.

Gail Gibbons combines clear, simple wording with her signature illustrations to present all the steps involved in building a house.

Reinhardt's mixed-media artwork includes several lighthearted moments (parallel scenes featuring Edison and Ford as children highlight the explosive results of early failed experiments).

Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimen

Being a wise and just ruler is no easy task. That's what Prince Veera discovers when he and his best friend, Suku, are given the opportunity to preside over the court of his father, King Bheema.

Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white.

Auggie and his magical companions are tending to the Fabled Stables when the building shakes and shudders to make room for a new arrival: the Tattle-Tail.

Clouds cover the sky in many shapes and sizes. Some clouds are thick and filled with rain. Others are thin and come with sunshine! Come cloud watch in this title for young readers.

From typing your name to playing a song, everything you do on computers uses code. But how do computers understand what we're telling them?

Where does an e-mail go when you hit send? Code zooms it through the millions of connections in the Internet!