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Feasting Bedbugs, Mites, and Ticks - Children's Literature
Tiny, even microscopic insects can make their home on our bodies. Some even live on human eyelashes! Ticks, bedbugs, and mites have feasted on humans and animals for millions of years but have become an increasing problem over the past decade. Section titles such as Sleep Tight!, Creepy… View →
Ferrari - Children's Literature
This slight but glossy sixty-four page book is filled with the historical information, statistics, photographs, glossary and timeline of Enzo Ferrari’s legacy of sports car excellence. From a factory in Maranello, Italy to movie screens around the world, the Ferrari is a symbol of… View →
Suicide - Children's Literature
Teens have one of the highest rates of suicide, so this is certainly a critical topic to understand better. Chapters include discussion of contributing factors such as family problems, bullying, or sexual identity questions, as well as co-occurring disorders such as depression, substance View →
Termites and Other Home Wreckers - Children's Literature
Wood-boring insects have chewed on our planet since the days of the dinosaurs. They can eat through furniture, books, hard wood floors, and trees. These insects can eat people out of house and home, yet play an important role in preserving forest by decomposing wood and creating compost… View →
What Is the Theory of Plate Tectonics? - Children's Literature
Can the surface of the Earth really be on the move? Understanding natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes has been a goal of scientific study of the Earth from the time of the Greeks to the present day. But the Theory of Plate Tectonics wasn’t established until the 1960s.… View →
What Is the Theory of Evolution? - School Library Journal
Gr 5–8—Scientific theories and laws are thoroughly defined and put into context with plenty of background and historical knowledge. Readers will find enough information to appreciate the many scientific advances that we enjoy today and see the potential for future progress. These titles… View →
What Is the Rock Cycle? - Children's Literature
Rocks start out as molten magma inside the Earth, and the rock cycle often starts with a volcano. As magma cools and turns solid, igneous rocks are created. As nature wears away at the rocks, bits of sediment drop off. As layers of sediment build up, sedimentary rocks are created.… View →
How do animals change? - Children's Literature
The table of contents indicates that there is a lot of information in this book. Young readers learn about various animals that hatch from eggs and that some of these animals are completely on their own once they have hatched. Other animals are born and these animals are fed milk from… View →
Bean's Life - Children's Literature
Part of the “Crabtree Connections” series, this title is categorized as a recount book and it introduces the life cycle of a bean, specifically the fava bean. A bean is a seed and the story starts with the planting of a bean and then describes and depicts how it grows roots… View →
Reptile rap - Children's Literature
Reptiles are introduced through rap verses and humorous photographs. Generalized information about alligators, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles is followed with specific facts about each species. Scaly skins and the exchange of old skin for new is described and illustrated.… View →
How are they the same? - Children's Literature
“Words to Know” is the first section in this early reader and it is really a picture glossary of six words. All of the animals on the brightly colored cover share something in common. The glossary shows the stripes on the fish depicted on the cover. The text is interactive… View →
Division - Children's Literature
Learning to solve math problems is made easier by using examples that children can easily understand. In this explanation of division, Charlie and his stepfather are off to the school carnival. They use the grouping method based on looking at items as an array. The book also introduces… View →