Deborah Kops
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
How can robots help us explore space? A probe called New Horizons is zooming through the outer solar system. It's headed to Pluto. It and other space robots can go where people cannot survive. In this book, you'll learn how robots can work as our eyes, ears, and hands in space.
4) Palenque
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mysterious ancient ruins, hidden deep in the jungle of southern Mexico… In May 1840, explorers John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood road their mules along a steep, muddy jungle path. They were hoping to find the ruins of an ancient, deserted site in Mexico they knew only from visitors' accounts. Through the trees, they spied the remains of a crumbling stone palace. Palenque! In the weeks they spent there, the men discovered intricately designed...
6) Machu Picchu
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Read all about the group of people called the Inca who built the small city of Machu Picchu, the city which lies northwest of Cuzco, the capital of the great Inca Empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Adding salt to water makes it boil faster. Eating turkey makes you sleepy. Organic food is best for the environment. You may have heard these common sayings and beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen food-related statements and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump the experts! Find out whether fats are always bad for you! Learn if rhubarb...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Henry Ford invented the automobile. The first video game was created in a science research lab. A melted candy bar inspired the invention of microwave ovens. You may have heard these beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen statements about inventions and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump the experts! Find out whether Alexander Graham Bell...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the...
11) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the legal and political career of the self-educated man who led the United States during the Civil War, and looks at its effects on his wife and children.
12) Women's suffrage
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Profiles early leaders in the fight for women's rights, especially the right to vote, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
14) Owls
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Describes various kinds of owls, their binocular vision, hunting and eating habits, mating and nesting behaviors, how they raise their young, and effects of humans on their habitat.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 12
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A biography of the twelfth president of the United States, with information on his childhood, family, political career, presidency, and legacy.
16) Racial profiling
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on the debate surrounding racial profiling in the United States--including a historical look at criminal profiles and U.S. government initiatives like Japanese-American internment during WWII through to the modern anti-terrorist age--through scholarly opinions, statistics, and studies"--Provided by publisher.
