Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: American Medical Association, Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Product Description
Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy’s life. It’s even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues boys face from a trusted source. The American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a [...]
Rating: (74 reviews)
Author: Debra Frasier
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
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Inspired by Debra Frasier’s enormously popular On the Day You Were Born, this charming photo journal invites families to celebrate the arrival of their loved one into the natural world. A star-spangled blue sky, crossed by a swath of sunshine yellow [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mick O’Hare
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Book Description
Outrageously entertaining and educational experiments from the team behind the phenomenal international bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?
How can you measure the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave oven? To keep a banana from decaying, are you better off [...]
Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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The perfect first space book for those almost-readers, There’s No Place Like Space takes us on a whirlwind tour of our solar system, with a few constellations thrown in for good measure. Cat in the Hat (along with beloved Thing One [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: W. Rev Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
It is Christmas eve, and Thomas wishes he was safe and warm in his shed with the other engines. But Thomas is a Really Useful Engine and has several important deliveries to make. Will he get home in time [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Franklyn M. Branley
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
`Accompanied by NASA photographs and Dorros’s colorful, lively drawings, the text explains the Earth’s rotation in clear and simple terms. An experiment using a lamp as the `sun’ further clarifies the principles introduced.’ —BL.
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Franklyn M. Branley
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
Because the moon revolves around Earth, it seems to grow and shrink. Children can read about the phenomena of the moon’s phases and with an experiment using an orange, a pencil, and a flashlight, they can see why the moon looks different at different [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Michael Driscoll
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Book Description
Children eight and up will enjoy this conversational but information-packed introduction to astronomy and stargazing, which includes the achievements of the great scientists, the history of space exploration, the story of our solar system, the myths behind the constellations, and how [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Book Description
The fieldtrip to the planetarium is foiled when the museum turns out to be closed, but Ms. Frizzle saves the day. The Magic School Bus turns into a spaceship and takes the class on a trip zooming through the atmosphere, to the Moon, and [...]
