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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Third Chimpanzee: For Young People
Gr 9 Up—Adapted for younger audiences by the redoubtable Stefoff but not significantly different in scope, arguments, or, for that matter, reading level from Diamond's original (Harper, 1992, 2006), this wide-ranging study of what makes us human offers provocative views of evolution, adaptation, cultural diffusion, sexuality, genocide, race, mass extinctions of the past and present, the roots of drug abuse and language, and even the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ("we're alone in a crowded universe...
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