De Medeiros, James

Learn about the basic science behind the sensed of touch and how we use it everyday.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to dolphins, where they live, what they eat, and efforts to protect them from extinction.

Photographs, charts, and text introduce young readers to the basics of kayaking; and offers advice on proper equipment and clothing, safety measures, various kayaking levels.

Illustrations and text discuss the history of slavery in the United States, and covers the New York City revolt in 1712, the slave revolt of 1811 in Louisiana, Nat Turner's rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, emancipation, and more.

Introduces young readers to pulleys, explaining what they are, how they work, what they have been used for throughout history, and how they might be used in the future.

Black-and-white photographs and text discuss the social history between slavery and the civil rights movement, and cover legal discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, race riots, Harlem, military service during the World Wars, and more.

Full-color photographs, maps, timeline, and sidebars describe the Parthenon of Greece, built under the leadership of Pericles between 447 and 432 B.C.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to anacondas, where they live, what they eat, and efforts to protect them from extinction.