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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.
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...
Monster Cars
Gr 1–2—Aimed at newly fledged readers, these galleries pair barely average quality photos with one- to three-sentence descriptive captions...
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...
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