Benjamin, Lisa

Explores engineering marvels from human history, including the Great Pyramids, the International Space Station, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, and more.

Explores the history of epidemics around the world.

Explores the hottest, coldest, and highest places on Earth.

Explores the Earth's largest plants and animals, including mammoths, elephants, and giant sequoias.

How are pacemakers, potato chips, penicillin, and Silly Putty alike? They?and many other inventions?were invented by mistake!.

Readers visit famous and unusual tombs around the world, learning about the leaders who are buried in them?and their plans for the afterlife.

Scavengers, deep-sea monsters, and two-headed flatworms are just a few of the weird creatures, large and small, that live in our world. Beware of the eyelash mites!.

Black holes and blue holes, chocolate hills and solar explosions. Earth and space have some real surprises!.

Some people have weird jobs. In this book you?ll meet workers who design roller coasters, study garbage, make fake food, and act like aliens for a living!.