Don Tate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Black History Month - Children
DeSTEMber - Children
NSTA / CBC Best STEM & Outstanding Science Trade Books K-12 2024
DeSTEMber - Children
NSTA / CBC Best STEM & Outstanding Science Trade Books K-12 2024
Description
"Before Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo Switch, there was a tinkerer named Jerry Lawson. As a boy, Jerry loved playing with springs, sprockets, and gadgety things. When he grew up, Jerry became an engineer--a professional tinkerer. In the 1970s, Jerry decided to tinker with video games. Back then, if players wanted a new video game, they had to buy an entire new console. This made gaming very expensive. Jerry was determined to fix this problem....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know....