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Easter Island Antiquities Juvenile literature Easter Island History Juvenile literature Inventions Islam and science Islamic civilization Islamic civilization Juvenile literature Muslim scientists Technological innovations Technological innovations Juvenile literature Technology and civilizationStine, Megan
Summary: "Unearth the secrets of the mysterious giant stone statues on this tiny remote Pacific island. Easter Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles from anywhere, has intrigued visitors since Europeans first arrived in the 1700s. How didpeople first come to live there? How did they build the enormous statues and why? How were they placed around the island without carts or even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 996 STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 996 STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHE BASKETUnderwood, Deborah.
Summary: Discussion of the enigmatic human-like rock statues on Easter Island, their significance, and how they may have gotten there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press/Thomson Gale 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 996.18 UNDRaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the statues of Easter Island, one of the ancient wonders of the world, including theories on how they were built, the people who built them, and what the statues are like today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 996.18 RAUSummary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONEBrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021