Offering fascinating insight into life beneath the waves, this book follows a dolphin through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.

Offering fascinating insight into life beneath the waves, this book follows a jellyfish through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.

Introduces sea turtles, describing their physical characteristics, eating habits, life cycle, and predators, along with what they do in a typical day.

Introduces seals, describing their physical characteristics, eating habits, life cycle, and predators, along with what they do in a typical day.

An introduction to sharks describes where these magnificent and fearsome animals are found, how they travel, what they eat, how they hunt, and how and where they sleep.

An introduction to octopuses describes their physical characteristics, eating habits, life cycle, and predators, along with what they do in a typical day.

Introduces tornadoes, describing what causes them, where they occur, the kinds of damage they do, and what people can do to protect themselves.

This book tells the story of the invention of the airplane, including the key players, setbacks along the way, and moments of discovery.

Describes the evolution of communication from telegrams to cell phones, focusing on the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and explaining how this technology changed America.

Did you know that in the Ice Age the world was covered in snow and ice? What animals lived during the Ice Age?

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of several of the animals who lived during the Ice Age and later became extinct, including the woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, andrewsarchus, and the ground sloth.

Outlines the basics of farming, explaining the difference between commercial and subsistence farming, and discusses what happens to food as it is processed, packaged, and sent to the supermarket.

Discusses tourism as a stimulus to the economy and as a threat to local culture and the environment, the growth of sustainable forms of tourism, and whether its impact is positive or negative.

This book shows students how to find, evaluate, organize and use evidence on key topics about the changing role of women since 1900. There are ideas for research topics, such as the role of the suffragettes, attempts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, women in sports, and the challenges of combining careers and motherhood. There's advice on skimming and scanning, identifying bias in sources, and interpreting photographs. A wide range of graphic organizers and completed examples are provided.

Examines the threats to the world's supply of freshwater, including the impact of pollution, wetlands drainage, global warming, and population growth on this valuable natural resource.

Discusses the different ways that plants reproduce, including pollination and spores.

Presents the pros and cons of this alternative energy source, discussing what it is; how it works; and its environmental impact, cost, and future.

Introduces the physical characteristics and behaviors of mice, including information on how to care for a pet mouse.

Explains how plants grow from seeds, develop into plants with leaves and flowers, and make the food they need to live.

Describes the habitats that plants can be found in, from deserts and ponds to forests and towns.

A simple introduction to the life cycle of the butterfly offers brief explanations of each stage in its development.

Describes how and where fossils are found and what they represent using examples of real fossils, from the point of view of a paleontologist.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and group life of kangaroos.