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Comets
Gr 2–4—Hunter will turn plenty of readers into enthusiastic sky watchers with these introductions to some of the heavens' more easily observed phenomena...
STEM Guides to Construction
Gr 3–7—These relentlessly instructional titles offer superficial quantities of engineering or design information that are transformed on nearly every spread into often-inane math problems...
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids: Voyagers of the Solar System
Gr 1–2—Despite occasional slipups (e...
Brilliant Beauty Inventions
Gr 2–4—This set is a browsers' delight as well as a rich resource for science or pop-history report writers...
Zoom in on Bizarre Bugs
Gr 3–5—Extreme close-ups of bugs, viruses, cells, and more charge up this series with browser appeal...
Forces and Motion
Gr 4–6—An improvement over Capstone's gimmicky "LOL Physical Science" series, these surveys of physical forces and phenomena combine straightforward, nontechnical explanations with well-designed graphics and murky but generally revealing photographs...
Take a Closer Look at Your Brain
Gr 2–4—Avoiding more controversial bodily features-or, in the case of Bladder, leaning toward abstraction in both text and illustrations-these bland introductions provide simple explanations of what selected anatomical components are made of and their functions...
Life Science Through Infographics
Gr 3–5—A well-designed infographic simultaneously conveys facts and presents their interrelationships in visual ways...
Science Experiments with Food
K-Gr 3—Prefaced by boilerplate on the scientific method and a complete list of easily available ingredients, the 9 to 11 new science demonstrations in each volume of this follow-up set to ABDO's "Super Simple Science" series offer clear directions, color photos (often of containers with visible brands), and lucid explanations of the scientific principles or processes involved...
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