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Encountering Ghosts: Eyewitness Accounts
Gr 3–5—In comic book format, each of these volumes re-creates eight or nine reported encounters with aliens, spectral figures, or cryptids...
Johnny Appleseed Plants Trees Across the Land
Gr 3–5—Sandwiched between historical notes that provide both general context and biographical details, these retold legends give four (male) folktale heroes a chance to strut their stuff...
Devils Tower
Gr 5–8—Readers who want to go for the gusto will find all they can handle in Transylvania's account of Vlad Dracul's bloody career (which is capped by a rousingly gruesome old image of skewered and decapitated corpses), but overall this series has more to offer armchair travelers than thrill-seekers...
Area 51
Gr 6–10—With only the barest dashes of skepticism, these handsomely produced surveys present budding cryptozoologists and conspiracy theorists with rich arrays of historical anecdotes and encounters, supposed evidence, "scientific" explanations of varying plausibility, and tantalizing speculations...
Bee People
Gr 5–7—Host and bee removal expert Gregg McMahan has a big personality and plenty of passion for his industrious "girls"—bees, that is...
Super Skyscrapers
Gr 6–9—Coherent narratives and excellent, if sometimes vertigo-inducing, camera work distinguish this four-part PBS miniseries...
Into the Cosmos Collection
Gr 5–8—Stars flare, titanic storms rage, colliding galaxies burst apart, and clouds of blazing gases blast toward the viewer in over-the-top portrayals of our far-from-quiet universe...
Alchemy and Chemistry
Gr 6–8—In these excellent surveys, Stefoff explores the historical relationships between science and pseudoscience...
Comet Encounter: ISON's Brush with the Sun
Gr 6–8—This overview offers an unusually detailed look at how teams of astronomers used optical telescopes, spectroscopic analyses, and crowdsourced databases to determine the orbit and composition of ISON, a comet that shot into the inner solar system from high above the plane of the ecliptic and, in November of 2013, grazed the sun...
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