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Provides instructions for experiments about bugs, including flies, microscopic insects, ants, bees, and others; and offers tips on using the workshops as science fair projects.
"Who needs bones to swim the seven seas? Not octopuses, clams, crabs, or jellies. Learn more about the lives of these and other ocean animals with no spines. Dive in!"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines the proliferation of space debris in outer space and discusses methods of retrieving and disposing of the material."
Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction. --Publisher
Moving is tough. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank notebook, which she uses to chronicle the move. Illustrations.
Doreen has vowed to make her new middle school work for her, but it is still a challenge given her ADD, her younger sister's lack of popularity, and tensions between her parents. Good thing Doreen has her doodle journal!
Provides instructions for twenty science fair projects and experiments that examine family, and includes tips on scoring well.
Kids will learn how maps are put together in layers like sandwiches, how to use a map to get oriented, and the use of hundreds of different kinds of maps.
Shows what the life of a harp seal is like as he grows up.
Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian. The other librarians, the neighborhood people, t...
Christine Gouda, called Tink, and her best friend Jackie are entering sixth grade, and suddenly everything seems awkward and just plain wrong--boys are behaving differently, clothes do not fit the way they should, long term friendships suddenly seem tenuous, and most of all she n...