It’s the start of a new season for Harrington High’s improv team—and Chloe is determined that this will be the year they make it all the way to the top. Her teammates (who also happen to be her closes
Splash it Swimming shows young readers the four major styles of competitive swimming: freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly. A special section also features today's champion swimmers.
Looks at the government and laws of the nations in the Islamic world, including how they choose leaders, how laws are set up, and how law-breakers are punished.
Introduces the requirements for life in a large city filled with office buildings, banks, and other businesses, and discusses life in New York, especially the central business area in lower Manhattan.
Secret agent Casey develops case files on 16 household processes such as water, sewage, power, telephone, heating, etc. Clear explanations and diagrams, and a funny premise, make for interesting read
The secrets of sleep are uncovered in this addition to the Mysterious You series, revealing how the body clock works, why the brain needs sleep, what happens during REM sleep, and more. Simultaneous.
Profiles various women with technological careers, including a plant physiologist, while providing easy-to-do activities that encourage young girls to explore and experiment with technology. Simultane
Readers can unlock the mysteries surrounding the five senses as they learn what they are, how they are used--in many different species--how they change with age, and much more. Simultaneous.
Explores human intelligence and the structure and function of the brain, and discusses learning, intelligence testing, genius, multiple intelligence types, ways to cultivate intellectual abilities, an
Provides an in-depth and fascinating examination of blood and its many purposes through colorful illustrations, diverse topics, and fun and informative facts. Simultaneous.
In the fifth Mysterious You book, kids probe the secrets of illness and sniff out what germs are, why they sometimes make us sick, how our bodies battle them, and how vaccines protect us against them.
