Sally M. Walker
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Electricity powers lights, computers, and television sets. But have you seen how electricity can make objects stick together? Or make other objects pull apart? Now you can! Explore electricity with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How...
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"When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became the regiment's much-loved mascot. But who could care...
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Rocks can be made of many different minerals. By looking at rocks closely, we can tell where they were formed and what conditions they were created in. How do we know these things? And how do we tell different types of rocks apart? Learn about ways to research rocks and what they can teach us about our world.
13) Fireflies
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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of fireflies.
15) Electricity
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Introduction to what electricity is and how it behaves in the world around us.
16) Hippos
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An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the common and the pygmy hippopotamus.
18) Rhinos
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Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, behavior, and conservation of rhinos.
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Rocks, fossils, earthquakes. Seventeen short syllables? Earth Science haiku! In a stunning combination of haiku and impressionistic (but accurate) art, this one-of-a-kind book encourages readers to think playfully about our planet and its wondrous processes. Sibert Medal-winning author Sally M. Walker covers Earths many marvels - fossilized skeletons of plants and animals, terrific volcanic eruptions, the never-ending hydrologic cycle - in sometimes...
20) Wheels and axles
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Describes work, machines, friction, wheels and axles, and gears in everyday surroundings, and presents experiments that explain how they work.