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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...
Monster Cars
Gr 1–2—Aimed at newly fledged readers, these galleries pair barely average quality photos with one- to three-sentence descriptive captions...
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 You Really Want to Visit Mars?
Gr 1–2—Suggesting at best only quick visits, these lighthearted excursions send a diverse cast of young explorers to various solar-system locales to check out landforms, the uniformly hostile atmospheric conditions, and such other features of note as Jupiter's Galilean moons ("the big kahunas")...
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Gr 3–5—Blending specific information with dramatic storytelling, these accounts of some of the world's most ambitious construction projects all capture a sense of their awesome scale...
Forces and Motion: Investigating a Car Crash
Gr 5–7—Each of these multipurpose volumes opens with an example of a generic accident or incident, then goes on to present evidence gathered by investigators-with explanations of the scientific principles and procedures employed to understand it-and invitations to readers to sift the clues, make the calculations, and draw conclusions for themselves...
The Amazing Story of Space Travel: Max Axiom STEM Adventures
Gr 2–4—Max Axiom, super scientist and Laurence Fishburne lookalike, returns to explain more modern-tech wonders in this fresh set of graphic novel-style episodes...
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