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Frontier of Discovery: Science | Series Made Simple Fall 2013
Whether the titles here take young readers on rides to distant planets or into their own bodies or explain how science is employed in coping with crimes and catastrophes, all present factual information in verbal and visual ways intended to stimulate an enduring curiosity about the natural world.
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...
Ambulance Rescue
Gr 2–3—Despite hokey sound effects on nearly every spread ("WHOOEE!" "WHUPPPA! CHUPPPA!"), these galleries of rescue vehicles mix salutary doses of information in with the drama...
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...
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...
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