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Komodo Dragons
Gr 3–4—Aimed at recent graduates of the publisher's "True Books" series, these titles offer substantial but not intimidating quantities of specific information about the featured creatures' characteristics and life cycles...
See Me Grow
K-Gr 2—This volume in the most elementary group of the three-level "Discover More" series introduces emergent readers to birth and development in the animal world...
This Book's Got Game
Gr 2–4—Full of gag-inducing information ("Baby koalas eat their mothers' soupy poop...
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...
Speed, Strength, and Stealth
Gr 2–3—Visually compelling but cursory in content, these volumes cover the ever-popular topic of animal claws, teeth, armor, offensive capabilities, and defensive adaptations...
Steve Jobs
Gr 4–6—This worshipful entry in the series gives the late, great entrepreneur's career a once-over so shallow that it never even mentions his birth parents, his formative sojourn to India, or Apple's iCloud...
Steve Jobs
Gr 5–7—Drawing on the posthumous "authorized" biography of Jobs as well as an array of older print and online publications, Ziller presents a glowing portrait of the late great entrepreneur as a technological visionary who stood and directed traffic "at the intersection of science and art...
Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
Gr 9 Up—Aimed more at collectors than general students, this companion to the authors' Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America (Firefly, 2007) fills in some historical background but is largely a set of dryly academic descriptions of characteristic materials, manufacturing methods, and decorative motifs associated with common types of Native North American artifacts...
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