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What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure

8 best books like What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure (Julie Ellis): Moletown, Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon, Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia, Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!), Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci, Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives, Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure

Moletown
AuthorTorben Kuhlmann
ISBN0735842086
Torben Kulhmann's stunningly illustrated, nearly wordless tale offers a fascinating window into an imaginary, yet hauntingly familiar world under our feet, where a mole suddenly recognizes the precarious balance between progress and preservation. But is it too late?

Kulhmann's open...
Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon
AuthorTorben Kuhlmann
ISBN0735842620
A long time ago a mouse learned to fly . . . and crossed the Atlantic. 

But what happened next? Torben Kuhlmann's stunning new book transports readers to the moon and beyond! On the heels of Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse comes Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon—where...
Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
AuthorD. Anne Love
ISBN0823416216
I feel very divided in reviewing this book, and torn between giving it three and four stars.

Things I like: This kid-friendly version of the story of Hypatia, a girl born Alexandria in the fourth century CE in a time when girls are not supposed to study philosophy or mathematics or science. But,...
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805079173
The inventions and inspiration of Benjamin Franklin and how they've stood the test of time

What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? If you were Benjamin Franklin, you'd set up these organizations yourself. Franklin also designed...
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)
AuthorBarry Wittenstein
ISBN1632895579
A young couple meet and marry. Josephine is prone to accidents and getting cuts. Her husband, Earle, has a father that is a doctor and Earle works in medical supplies. You know what happens next: Earle creates the Band-Aid.

This is the evolution of what we now know as our go to bandage. They even...
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805087036
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer,...
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805091084
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.
Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange,...
Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure
AuthorTorben Kuhlmann
ISBN0735843228
4.5 adventurous mice :)

When adventure calls upon you, and should you have a weakness for such things, there is hardly a way of not complying…even if you are a mouse!

“He left this letter behind. He talks about the treasure and his journey to America. This piece of paper has been in...
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