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Explores the creation of the Constitution. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.

Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as an FBI special agent. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.

Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a smokejumper. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, and daily job tasks related to this career, in the framework of the STEAM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, movement. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.

Explores the development of the Bill of Rights. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.

Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a cyber cop. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.

A wise-cracking real estate broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Parker Hendrix, cultivates orchids, plays racquetball, and likes to sleep late after midnight skinny-dips with his free-spirited girlfriend, Lorri. When two mainland Mafia-types show up at Parker's small-town office posing as real estate clients, Parker's peaceful routine becomes engulfed in the grim realities of kidnapping, drugs and murder, the underbelly of paradise. With little...

Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Fake News in the Global Citizens: Modern Media series explores the topic through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of fake news in the media. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused backmatter...

Learn about new discoveries, technological achievements, and scientific breakthroughs in the exploration of deep space. Engaging photos and up-to-date information help you take a closer look at black holes, exoplanets, and deep-space navigation.

Learn how sharkskin has helped scientists create more effective swimsuits.

In these stories, a cast of headstrong characters traverses continents, from the Hawaiian surf, to a Guyanese jungle, to the Kalahari Desert. In "Leviathan," Cal and Harold catch sight of a tiger shark offshore and kayak out to get a closer look, only to barely survive. In "Three Parts Hunger," a damaged, starving lion wanders close to a couple camping in the Kalahari and sticks around. There are many wild animals in these stories-wolves, emaciated...