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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The Earth introduces readers to key moments in the planet's life, from its formation over four billion years ago to the present, including the Earth's position in the solar system, its layers, and when plants and animals began to inhabit the planet.
2) Heat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why do some things heat up quickly while others don't? How can heat cause matter to change form-from solid to liquid to gas and back again? Heat cannot be seen, but it can easily be felt. Looking at different objects' molecular makeup, this book describes the fundamentals of heat and furthers understanding through a series of easy experiments.
3) Matter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
4) Light
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A simple look at light and optics.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let's save Earth together!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin spider silk--and to weave a nearly indestructible fiber. Learn how this amazing material might someday be used to repair or replace human ligaments and bones, improve body armor, strenghten parachute rope, and even tether an airplane to an aircraft carrier!...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles 18 of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities --
14) Mushroom rain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through lyrical text and colorful detailed artwork, the mysterious and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms is explored. Back matter includes a glossary and science facts--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When William Beebe was born in 1877, scientists had only begun to explore the natural world, a world that fascinated Beebe even as a child. He studied migratory birds, rain forest canopies, and ocean depths. Beebe was a pioneer of ecology, observing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is a black hole? Where do they come from? How were they discovered? Can we visit one? Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano takes readers on a ride through the galaxies (ours, and others), answering these questions and many more about the phenomenon known as a black hole. In lively and often humorous text, the book starts off with a thorough explanation of gravity and the role it plays in the formation of black holes. Paintings by Michael Carroll, coupled...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Packed with many cool facts and visuals on where certain animals live and what they eat, this book captures twenty-five humorous--and very true--explanations of why animals look the way they do in order to exist in this world."--Amazon.com.
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