Orem Library

A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the properties of light. Features include several photographic pages, a glossary, additional resource list, and an index.

"Uses graphic novel format to reveal the scientific aspects at play in the sport of basketball"--

Este libro es para que vivas, crees y digas lo que sientes. Para que viajes por ese universo donde los sueños pueden hacerse realidad. Este libro habla de las cosas que importan. Y, sobre todo, de las cosas que te importan a tí. This book talks about the things that matter. And, above all, about the things that matter to you.

The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea--the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel's protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture. The...

A grumpy grizzly bear attacks a young hunter. A huge hippopotamus strikes an unsuspecting tourist. A ferocious great white shark chomps into an experienced surfer. These shocking, true animal attacks could have ended in tragedy--but they didn't! What happened to the people who came face to face with these terrifying creatures? And how did they survive to tell their tales? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read hi-lo graphic novel that will...

Today is the first day of Sage's magical internship! Her fellow wizards-in-training get to study pyromancy and transfiguration, but Sage has been assigned an internship in...baking? She doesn't think that sounds fun, or particularly magical! But her instructor, Korian, insists that baking is a tasty form of alchemy. In an enchanted kitchen where the ingredients insist that you eat them, Sage learns the simple science behind baking--and that's the...

With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

A graphic adaptation of the landmark and frequently contested nineteenth-century work on evolutionary theory draws on the author's own words and rarely seen correspondence.

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical basic subtraction concepts"--

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical division concepts"--