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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
ISBN 0670062723 EAN: 9780670062720 Viking Paperback 
(9 to 12) WB Price: $27.95
Al Gore's bestselling book is now adapted for perhaps the most important audience of all: today's youth, who have no choice but to confront the planetary emergency head-on. Bursting with color photos, this book clearly explains global warming.22.76 cms L x 19.05 cms W (0.51 kgs) 192 pages 

 

 

 

Earthbook For Kids 
Activities to Heal The Environment 
ISBN 0881601950 Learning Works Paperback (6 to 12) WB Price: $22.95
Filled with ideas for arts and crafts projects, experiments, and experiences that encourage children to enjoy and heal the environment, this book covers acid rain, endangered wildlife, pesticides, energy, recycling, pollution, landfills, rain forests, water conservation, and related topics.21 cms L x 23 cms W (0.40 kgs) 184 pages

 

 

 

How Do Apples Grow?
ISBN 0064451178 Harper Paperback WB Price: $10.45

Learn about pollination and fertilization as an apple grows from a bud to flower to fruit. Enchanting illustrations.

 

 

 

 

Earthquakes
ISBN 0064451887 Harper Paperback 
WB Price: $10.45

What causes earthquakes? What happens? What can one do to stay safe during an earthquake?

 

 

 

How Mountains Are Made
ISBN 0064451283 Harper PB 
WB Price: $10.45

A very informative book about how mountains and volcanoes are formed. There are plenty of colourful pictures to make this geography lesson very interesting.

 

 

 

Oil Spill
ISBN 0064451216 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45
Did you know that an oil spill occurs somewhere in the world almost every day of the year? Berger and Mirocha focus on one of the worst spills in history,the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill,to explain in simple terms and with bold, full color illustrations why oils spills happen, how experts clean up after them, and what effect spilled oil has on ocean plants and wildlife. 1994 "Pick of the Lists",Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1995 

 

 

Why Do Leaves Change Color? 
ISBN 0064451267 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) 
WB Price: $10.45
Explains the concepts of photosynthesis, pigments, and chlorophyll in terms children can understand and includes activities children can do with leaves.

 

 

 

 

Who Eats What?
ISBN 0064451305 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45
An award-winning author and artist explain how every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival. "Clear, simple drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth."Booklist" Explains the concept of a food chain and how plants, animals, and humans are ecologically linked. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1996 

 

 

Let's Go Rock Collecting
ISBN 0064451704 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45
Holly Keller has created vivacious new paintings for this favorite Reading Rainbow title about geology. Readers follow two enthusiastic rock hounds around the globe as they add to their collection. Along the way they will learn how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks are formed. From the Egyptian pyramids to Roman roads, from the diamond ring on your finger to the pebbles under your feet, rocks are everywhere!

 

 

Corn Is Maize
ISBN 0064450260 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45
What's so great about corn?Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, tacos, tamales, and tortillas. All of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. Aliki tells the story of corn: How Native American farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made it an important part of their lives. They learned the best ways to grow and store and use its fat yellow kernels. And then they shared this knowledge with the new settlers of America. 

 

 

Be A Friend To Trees
ISBN 0064451208 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45

Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on trees for food and shelter. But most important, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. While trees give us many wonderful products, we must also protect them because we can't live without them. Discusses the importance of trees as sources of food, oxygen, and other essential things. 

 

 

Volcanoes
ISBN 0064450597 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.45
There are thousands of volcanoes all over the world. Some erupted millions of years ago and are quiet now. Others are newer and still active. Still others are being formed right now. Geologists study volcanoes - and so can you. Learn how the very structure of the earth predicts where they are found, and explains how they form and what makes them suddenly, and violently, erupt.

 

 

Sunshine Makes The Seasons
ISBN 0064450198 Harper Paperback (4 to 9)WB Price: $10.45
Are there reasons for the seasons? It all starts with the sun. The sun shines on the Earth and keeps it warm.We have day and night because the Earth spins on its axis and we spend part of each day facing the sun and part of the day facing away from it. But why are days longer in the summer than in the winter? The answer to this question is explained through an experiment using a pencil, an orange, and a flashlight. And when you see this, you'll know the reasons for the seasons.

 

 

When The Wind Stops
ISBN 0064434729 EAN 9780064434720 HarperTrophy Paperback WB Price: $11.95
Touches on the cycle of life where nothing stops. It just begins in another place or in a different way. "Where does the rain go when the storm is over? Into clouds to make other storms." Enchanting wood-grained drawings and poetic words.22.28 cms L x 25.43 cms W (0.14 kgs) 32 pages

 

 

 

Nature's Green Umbrella
ISBN Mulberry Paperback WB Price: $11.95
A scientifically accurate book which depicts the complex world of rain forests in easily understood text and sumptuous illustrations. The geography, climate and ecology of the rain forest are explained and the illustrations teem with the flora and fauna.

 

 

 

DK Eye Witness Ocean
ISBN 0751364770 DK Paperback 72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn how a monitoring buoy measure temperature, about the world's major currents, why a hermit crab finds a second home, and how the earth's plates form. Discover where the deepest dive was made, the length of a giant tube worm, what fish eat at the bottom of the ocean, how a coral reef is formed, how dead man's fingers got their name, and much, much more.

 

 

 

DK Eye Witness Hurricane
ISBN 1405302968 DK Paperback
72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Stunning full-color photographs, models and illustrations offer a unique "eyewitness" view of catastrophic weather conditions. See into the eye of a spiraling cyclone, hailstones the size of tennis balls, a spectacular lightning ball, the devastating effects of the El Nino phenomenon. Discover what causes giant waves capable of engulfing entire cities and much, much more.

 

 

 

DK Eye Witness Weather
ISBN 0751347469 DK Paperback
72 pgs 
WB Price: $13.95

See the biggest hailstone, inside the eye of a hurricane, a warm front in 3-D, the beauty of a snow crystal, a moon dog, and a dust devil. Learn the difference between a stratus and cumulonimbus cloud, how our weather may change in the future, and why tornadoes are so ferocious. Discover why deserts are dry, how clouds are born, what makes raindrops grow, why the sky is blue, and much, much more.

 

 

 

DK Eye Witness Plant
72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn how plants defend themselves, why flowers are brightly colored, how a plant can climb, why some plants feed on insects, and why some plants have no seeds. Discover why some plants have spines and stingers, what plants looked like millions of years ago, how plants survive in the desert, how plants turn sunlight into energy, and much, much more.

 

 

 

DK Eye Witness Tree
ISBN 1405305487 DK Paperback
72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Did you know that a single seed can cross an ocean? Or what happens when a leaf dies? Learn about the different varieties of the world's trees, from the tiny acorn to forest giants of California. Everything you need to know about anything to do with trees and great for project work. 

 

 

 

DK Guide Savage Earth
ISBN 9780756617912 DK Paperback 64 pgs WB Price: $14.95
Lavishly illustrated, with many unusual views of the Earth and its features, "DK Guide to the Savage Earth" offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the making and shaping of planet Earth. Full-color photos and illustrations. 31.27 cms L x 23.67 cms W

 

 

                                           

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