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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...
Do Plants Really Eat Insects?: Questions and Answers About the Science of Plants
Gr 2–5—Mixing no-brainers such as "Could you survive if you jumped up just before a falling elevator hit the ground?" (No) with such compelling enquiries as "Why is snow white?" and the prize-worthy "Do plants poop?" this set of science Q & A's offers nontechnical but specific and clearly reasoned explanations for a wide range of common and uncommon natural phenomena...
Cancer Treatments
Gr 6–9—These utilitarian surveys offer relatively extended but nontechnical accounts of our developing understanding of various physical maladies and the most effective ways to treat them...
Vehicles of the Civil War
Gr 4–6—Small but well-chosen photos give fans of military hardware unusually diverse galleries of transportation in these surveys...
The Awesome Inner Workings of Video Games
Gr 4–7—Young gamers who wonder what's inside their Xboxes or how those dramatic graphics are created will come away from these satisfying volumes with plenty of facts...
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