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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Young Readers)

by Bill Bryson

Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 900L · 176 pages · 2009

Why we'd hand it over

The gold standard for sparking genuine intellectual hunger in upper-elementary readers—funny, encyclopedic, and genuinely awestruck about how much we still don't know.

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