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Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
This gripping book tells kids all about the perilous journey to escape slavery and finally become free: how long it could take, where the fugitives hid, who helped them, how "stationmasters" sent secret messages, and other fascinating details of the legendary Underground Railroad.
14) Inside tornadoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on the planet-as these photographs filled with before-and-after images of storm sites reveal. What makes a tornado, where they strike, and what scientists discover as they risk their lives driving equipment as close as possible to these storms. With first-person accounts of historic storms, facts on climate change and its potential effect on tornadoes, and hands-on activities.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book chronicles the efforts of Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International, as they try and save bat species from loss of habitat and white-nose syndrome.
18) Inside weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
48 pages (some folded) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whipping winds, heart-stopping thunder, devastating tornadoes, and flooding rains.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Could a snowball fight really have sparked the American Revolution? What made people get so steaming mad over the price of tea? And did it take a minuteman only a minute to join the fight? Step back into colonial America to find out about taxation without representation; why the British were called lobsters, the first-ever combat submarine and whether Yankee doodles were really dandy!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Is each snowflake unique? What comes first: thunder or lightning? What causes the seasons? Whatever the weather question a child has--from sunshine to storms or snow--the fascinating answers are right here!"--
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