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Termites and Other Home Wreckers - Children's Literature
Wood-boring insects have chewed on our planet since the days of the dinosaurs. They can eat through furniture, books, hard wood floors, and trees. These insects can eat people out of house and home, yet play an important role in preserving forest by decomposing wood and creating compost… View →
Feasting Bedbugs, Mites, and Ticks - Children's Literature
Tiny, even microscopic insects can make their home on our bodies. Some even live on human eyelashes! Ticks, bedbugs, and mites have feasted on humans and animals for millions of years but have become an increasing problem over the past decade. Section titles such as Sleep Tight!, Creepy… View →
Coastal Treasure Hunter - Children's Literature
Sand and seashells are not the only things found on coasts around the world. Waves have washed ashore a huge variety of items including MP3 players, motorbikes, and even a squid the length of a bus. This book takes readers on a journey to discover the many treasures that can be found on… View →
Vera Wang: A Passion for Bridal and Lifestyle Design - Children's Literature
In 1968 a major magazine featured an up-and coming teenager—Vera Wang. Ironically, that magazine wasn’t one that most Vera Wang fans would think of when they think of the iconic fashion designer. Instead, it was Sports Illustrated. The fact that she was quite a figure skater in her View →
Buzz off, Flies! - Children's Literature
Flies have swarmed our planet for over 200 million years and live everywhere people do. They spread germs and diseases but are also important pollinators and have been used for medicinal purposes. Flies have been around longer than humans and have managed to find their way into recipes,… View →
Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
A new series from Crabtree Books, Groundbreaker Biographies, includes sport figures, fashion designers, political activists and government figures. Two of the biographies are about Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court judge, and Dolores Huerta, a Latino activist who helped… View →
Suicide - Children's Literature
Teens have one of the highest rates of suicide, so this is certainly a critical topic to understand better. Chapters include discussion of contributing factors such as family problems, bullying, or sexual identity questions, as well as co-occurring disorders such as depression, substance View →
Ferrari - Children's Literature
This slight but glossy sixty-four page book is filled with the historical information, statistics, photographs, glossary and timeline of Enzo Ferrari’s legacy of sports car excellence. From a factory in Maranello, Italy to movie screens around the world, the Ferrari is a symbol of… View →
Alan and the Animals - Children's Literature
Part of the “Tadpoles” series, this Guided Reading Level B book entertains new readers with an amusing tale. The cover shows Alan with a frog on his head, a mouse in his pocket and a dog-like critter’s paws resting on his chest. Alan loves bats and rats and even has ten View →
What Is the Theory of Plate Tectonics? - Children's Literature
Can the surface of the Earth really be on the move? Understanding natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes has been a goal of scientific study of the Earth from the time of the Greeks to the present day. But the Theory of Plate Tectonics wasn’t established until the 1960s.… View →
What Is the Theory of Evolution? - School Library Journal
Gr 5–8—Scientific theories and laws are thoroughly defined and put into context with plenty of background and historical knowledge. Readers will find enough information to appreciate the many scientific advances that we enjoy today and see the potential for future progress. These titles… View →
What Is the Theory of Evolution? - Children's Literature
What if your life’s work involved developing a theory about a subject that ran contrary to what most people believed? What if it inspired a controversy that continues for decades? Such was the contribution of Charles Darwin, in his work on evolution. Joining other scientists who… View →