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Backyard Food Chains
Angela's Royston's simpler Food Chains and Webs (Heinemann, 2014) for the lower ranges of the intended audience, and PowerKids' own 2002 "Library of Food Chains and Food Webs" for the upper, are better alternatives.
Endangered Energy: Investigating the Scarcity of Fossil Fuels
Despite the flaws, these issues are important, and even if these introductions are stronger on general concepts than specific facts, they should stimulate enough concern to fuel further inquiry.
These volumes point to the role humans have played in endangering
Earth's resources. The information is presented in four chapters;
each book's final chapter focuses on what government and
individuals can do now before it's too late. The choppy texts are
accessible and supported by photos, diagrams, and related fact
boxes. Common Corerelated questions are appended. Reading list.
Glos., ind. Review covers these Fact Finders: Endangered Earth
titles: Endangered Energy and Endangered Rivers.
Animal Pollinators
Suitable additions for those looking for material on plants or flowers.
For seeds to grow, pollen needs to reach a flower's carpel. In
simple language (with potentially difficult words in bold print),
this series teaches early readers about the various ways this
happens; information is often repeated from book to book. Close-up
photos (inconsistently labeled and captioned) of flower structures
and yellow pollen dust on fuzzy bees and bats help readers
visualize the process. Glos., ind. Review covers the following
First Step Nonfiction: Pollination titles: Animal
Pollinators, Cross-Pollination, Insect
Pollinators, Self-Pollination, and Parts of a
Flower.
To Catch a Comet
This has its merits as a picture of science in action and also as a reminder that NASA isn't the only space agency in town.
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More
Gr 8 Up—For readers who haven't balked at Stephen Hawkings's A Brief History of Time (Bantam, 1988) or Robert P...
Science and Political Controversy: A Reference Handbook
Gr 8 Up—Though his base premise—that science and politics exist in "virtually constant conflict in the modern world"—is arguable, Newton assembles a useful, if one-sided, overview of areas, past and present, in which the two have clashed...
Gettysburg
Gr 2–4—Aimed at younger or less able readers than the same-named Gareth Stevens series (also reviewed in this issue) and with a different focus, this set's third quartet (earlier volumes were published in 2013) takes intrepid students on quick tours of four American locales "said to be" haunted...
Searching for Bigfoot
Gr 4–6—Characterized by well-balanced measures of skepticism and willingness to believe, these portraits of prominent cryptids offer a mix of tantalizing eyewitness accounts and legends, "evidence" either inscrutable or noted as proven bogus, and rousing, sometimes gruesome illustrations...
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