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Gorillas
Gr 2–4—These meaty introductions to our closest animal relatives will give young readers a solid grounding in primates' physical features, social habits, mental capabilities, and lives in their wild habitats...
Steve Jobs
Gr 5–7—Standing out from the rush of postmortem profiles, this biography focuses most intently on the entrepreneur and innovator's earliest influences, from his mechanically gifted adoptive father and the electronics enthusiasts who clustered in "Silicon Valley" to his exposure to Zen Buddhism, calligraphy, and the idea that art and engineering are not mutually exclusive pursuits...
Military Airplanes
Gr 1–2—Though some of the full-page photos of military vehicles in the field are dark, making the pictured machines hard to decipher, the color photos, high-interest topics, and large-type texts bedewed with military-style acronyms—particularly in Trucks—may draw reluctant older readers as well as younger browsers...
Ice Cream Before the Store
Gr 2–3—Readers who think that foods and other goods just magically appear on store shelves may have their eyes opened (but not very wide) by the general explanations in these volumes, most of which promise more than they deliver...
Bedbug-Sniffing Beagles and Other Scent Hounds
K-Gr 1—Though formatted for emergent readers—with very simple sentences in large type placed opposite full-page color photos of animals at work—this set offers information that will likely be new even to adults...
Hot Bikes
Gr 3–5—These scattershot volumes of assorted high-interest topics barrage readers with randomly selected facts ("Wingsuit divers fall at speeds of around 60 mph...
Carousels
Gr 1–3—Though the amusement park mainstays highlighted in this series don't all offer quite the same level of "thrill," the bright color photos and Bodden's matter-of-fact descriptions of what riders can expect may leave novices eager, or at least a little better prepared, for their first rides...
Aircraft Carriers
Gr 2–4—These tantalizing but skimpy titles describe the functions of selected war machines in jargon-free text ("A gunner can shoot at enemies from the top part of a Humvee...
AH-64D Apache Longbow
Gr 4–8—Using clipped sentences that are nonetheless detail heavy, these portraits of currently active U...
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