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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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At 9 years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium…
in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie knew better and set out to prove it. Despite many obstacles in her path, Eugenie was able to study the creatures she loved so much. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she dispelled, Eugenie's wide scientific contributions led to the well-earned nickname "Shark Lady". Winner of the 2018 Blue Spruce Award. Grades K-3. 2017.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Chris loves rockets and planets and pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploring the universe. Only one problem--at night, Chris doesn't…
feel so brave. He's afraid of the dark. But when he watches the ground-breaking moon landing on TV, he realizes that space is the darkest dark there is--and the dark is beautiful and exciting, especially when you have big dreams to keep you company. Inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield. Grades K-3. 2016.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure…
and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was left to raise their eleven children. Eventually, she was hired by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to improve kitchen design, which was only the beginning. Gilbreth was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and the first female psychologist to have a U.S. postage stamp issued in her honour. She was also an author, a professor, and an inventor. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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True story of young Clara Barton. Animals and flowers were Clara's best friends. She had a special way with critters…
and found joy in the beauty that sprang from the soil. But whenever Clara talked, she could not get over her lisp. Clara's older brother Davie understood that his sister was gifted and told his sister, "Some day you are going to be a very great lady." And that's exactly what happened. Clara Barton became one of the most famous medical practitioners of all time, and founded the American Red Cross. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2014.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Succès de librairie (documentaires), Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies)
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When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family…
didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps. Several years later he figured out how to use the windmill for irrigation purposes. Bestseller. Grades K-3. 2012.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and…
helping animals. Jane grew up to help change the world! Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist. Grades K-3. 2011.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies)
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When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks.…
By the time he was a teenager, he had made a vow: “Someday I will turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity.” Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing ideas to America. From using alternating current to light up the Chicago World’s Fair to harnessing Niagara to electrify New York City, Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2013.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Katherine Sessions never thought she’d live in a place without trees, but after becoming the first woman to graduate from…
the University of California with a degree in science, she took a job as a teacher in the dry desert town of San Diego. Kate decided that San Diego needed trees more than anything else, so this trailblazing young woman singlehandedly started a massive movement that transformed the town into the green, garden-filled oasis it is today. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2013.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Henrietta Leavitt was born in 1868, and she changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old.…
Henrietta spent years measuring star positions and sizes from photographs taken by the telescope at the Harvard College Observatory, where she worked. After Henrietta observed that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes, her discovery made it possible for astronomers to measure greater and greater distances - leading to our present understanding of the vast size of the universe. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2013.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Margaret Knight was different from most American girls living in 1850 – she loved to make things with wood and…
made the best kites and sleds in town. Her father died when she was only three, and by the time she was twelve, she was working at the local cotton mill alongside her two older brothers. One day, she saw a worker get injured by a shuttle that had come loose from the giant loom, and the accident inspired her to invent a stop-motion device. Margaret devoted her life to inventing, and is best known for the clever, practical, paper bag. When she died in 1914, she had ninety inventions to her name and over twenty patents, astounding accomplishments for a woman of her day. Grades K-3. 2011. (Great idea series)Exemplaires disponibles:
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Europe (voyage et géographie), Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Meet Ada Lovelace, the British mathematician and daughter of poet Lord Byron. Part of the beloved Little People, BIG DREAMS…
series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the colorful life of Lord Byron’s daughter, from her early love of logic, to her plans for the world's first computer program. As a child, Ada had a big imagination and a talent for mathematics. She grew up in a noble household in England, where she dedicated herself to studying. Her work with the famous inventor, Charles Babbage, on a very early kind of computer made her the world's first computer programmer. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical images and a detailed profile of the mathematician's life.Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardcover versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games, and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children.Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies)
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Written by four-year-old Daxton Wilde with the help of his mother while he was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments for…
a brain tumour, the book places Wilde as the central character, a superhero, fighting "a bad guy named Cancer" with the help of "Captain Chemo." Grades K-3 and older readers. 2005.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
Braille avec transcription humaine
Fun-loving Patrick was always on the go. He played the piano and loved to toboggan, skate and ski. So his…
younger sister barely noticed that he needed daily shots because of his hemophilia. She also didn't know Patrick had a secret. Because of a tainted blood transfusion, he was HIV positive. Nobody but their parents knew. So Patrick continued his life of laughter, friendship and accomplishment, winning trophies and awards for everything he tried. When he developed full-blown AIDS, Patrick decided to go public so that others would realize that HIV and AIDS are preventable. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2010.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies)
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim…
Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-). Grades K-3. 2018.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies)
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What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known…
as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison. He is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2012.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Essais et documents généraux, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Nature
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Meet Marie Tharp (1920-2006), the first person to map the Earth's underwater mountain ridge, in this inspiring picture book biography…
from the author of Shark Lady.From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office.Exemplaires disponibles:
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Sciences et médecine (biographies), Déficiences, Histoire (biographies)
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An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.**Winner of…
a Schneider Family Book Award!** Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. Praise for Six Dots: "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world—for the blind and sighted alike."—Kirkus Reviews"Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."—Bulletin, starred review"This picture book biography strikes a perfect balance between the seriousness of Braille’s life and the exuberance he projected out into the world." — School Library Journal, starred reviewExemplaires disponibles:
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Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Dinosaures
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A captivating look at the life of a modern-day fossil hunter who makes the find of a lifetime. Wendy has…
an eye for the unusual and is skilled at finding things that others don't see. On a middle school field trip, she spots one of those unusual things --- it's fossilized coral 100 million years old! Wendy's thrilled! And soon, she gets hooked on hunting fossils. She decides to turn her passion into her career and becomes known as the “fossil whisperer” around the world. But it's close to home where she makes her most amazing find: Wendiceratops! Make no bones about it, a dinosaur species named after you is way cool! Kids will be wondering: what might be buried where I live?Exemplaires disponibles:
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