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Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids' science queries. Now the best questions and answers from all three books-How Come?; How Come? Planet Earth; and How Come? In the Neighborhood-have been revised, updated, freshly illustrated in full color, supplemented with twenty completely new questions, and combined into one bigger, better volume.
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Our universe volume 1
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Learn about the planet Earth and its history.
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If medals were awarded to animals for living a long time, then a giant tortoise would certainly win one. Some giant tortoises have lived for more than 150 years! Still, there are things on this planet much older than giant tortoises. Some of the giant sequoia trees that grow in California would be more than 3,000 years old. But, the trees aren't that old compared to the Barringer Crater in Arizona-that was made about 49,000 years ago. And, it's almost...
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Early science fiction imagined a world with space travel, video calls, and worldwide access to information, things we now know as NASA?s human spaceflight program, Skype, and the Internet. What next? Could we really bring back the dinosaurs, travel to a distant star, or live on Mars? In The Science of Science Fiction, readers ages 12 to 15 explore the science behind classic and modern science fiction stories, including artificial intelligence, androids,...
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Author Helaine Becker and illustrator Phil McAndrew use monsters to attract young people to science. Featuring a different monster for each chapter, readers find out about evolution, diseases, electricity and more with the help of Frankenstein, vampires, Bigfoot, zombies, werewolves and sea monsters. 96pp., Color Ill.
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Sure a lot of kids want to grow up to be astronauts, but according to scientist Glenn Murphy, even MORE kids want to know what happens to astronaut farts. (Short answer: Not good things!) And they want to know: Why don't all fish die from lightening storms? Why haven't we all been sucked into a black hole? Do animals talk? Told in a back-and-forth conversational style, "Why is Snot Green?" presents science just the way kids want to learn it--with...
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