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Cover: Cultural Traditions in Mexico

Cultural Traditions in Mexico - School Library Journal

Simple overviews of the holidays, festivals, traditions, and customs of these countries. Each spread contains information and eye-catching, full-color photos depicting the foods and people commemorating events. National and religious holidays are included. Brazil starts with Christmas… View →

 
Cover: Cultural Traditions in Brazil

Cultural Traditions in Brazil - Children's Literature

More than 200 million people live in Brazil, which is the largest country in South America. This nonfiction book describes the many holidays that are celebrated in Brazil. A few of these celebrations include Christmas, Carnival, Easter, Indian Day, and Feasts Day. In Brazil the weather… View →

 
Cover: Corvette

Corvette - Children's Literature

In the 1950s America was introduced to its own ?homegrown" sports car. Produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors, the 1953 Corvette was a fiberglass, two-seater designed to show American muscle in the international sports car world. Only three hundred of them were made… View →

 
Cover: What Are Newton's Laws of Motion?

What Are Newton‘s Laws of Motion? - Children's Literature

Imagine developing a set of laws that describe motion succinctly, clearly and mathematically. Imagine also that these laws apply equally to motion occurring on Earth and throughout the solar system. This was the contribution to science made by Sir Isaac Newton. But Newton didn’t… View →

 
Cover: Labor Day

Labor Day - Children's Literature

Unions have organized workers to band together to better working conditions and benefits. Facing sixteen hour days, dangerous workplaces and less than fair wages, unions were able to make demands for better conditions by holding strikes and protests. They improved workers lives, their… View →

 
Cover: Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy - Children's Literature

The negative consequences of teen pregnancy are significant, including curtailed education and significantly lower lifetime earnings for the parent; this is also true for their children, who also experience higher incidences of teen pregnancy and incarceration. Puberty, described as the… View →

 
Cover: Line, Bar, and Circle Graphs

Line, Bar, and Circle Graphs - Children's Literature

Part of the series “My Path to Math,” this volume is a useful and clear introduction to a practical subject. It begins with charts and pictographs. Children who are part of a summer reading program at a library talk about the children themselves, bookmarks, books, and subject View →

 
Cover: Rain Forest

Rain Forest - Children's Literature

Generally rainforests are found in hot climates and they are places where it rains every day. These rainforests are homes to many plants and animals that live on the ground, in trees and at varying levels of the forest. Ants march along the ground and army ants can be quite formidable… View →

 
Cover: The Alps

The Alps - Children's Literature

The ageless Alps—world’s most famous mountain range—have the greatest population, are the most visited, and have been explored since earliest times. Readers of this “Mountains Around the World” series will discover that the Alps divide Italy from northern Europe and… View →

 
Cover: Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga - Children's Literature

Performance artist, social activist and fashion icon Lady Gaga has pushed her creativity since she was a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her life story from a childhood where she was known as Stefani Germanotta to her makeover into the performer Lady Gaga with a… View →

 
Cover: Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus - Children's Literature

An introductory page contains a diagram of the Mesozoic Era showing the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous Periods. A brief text explains that living things have been around for billions of years and shows the place in time for the Apatosaurus. A twenty-two page story follows… View →

 
Cover: Explore Earth's Seven Continents

Explore Earth‘s Seven Continents - Children's Literature

Students are provided with an overview of the seven continents and what makes each continent unique. Not only is the book packed concisely with facts relating to continents, students also learn about borders, countries, cities, habitats, rivers and oceans. Kalman does an excellent job of View →