water

When a strange rain falls bearing a fatal, contagious disease, Ruby finds herself alone with the only drinkable water quickly running out.

Bold color photos and easy-to-read text introduce readers to water. Five informative chapters highlight water's role on Earth, how we use it, and why it is important not to waste it. Zoom in even deeper with key stats and bolded glossary terms that make learning fun.

Water is essential for life, but where does it come from? This exciting book dives into that question to explain to readers exactly what happens in the water cycle.

Explores what makes water pollution in lakes and rivers, the dangers, and what can be done to help reduce it.

Explores the relationship between the movement of Earth's water and the sun. Shows how the sun's presence or absence can change water's forms--whether liquid or solid or vapor--and move it from sea to sky and back again, ensuring life's continued existence on Earth.

Explains how the shape of Earth is changed by weathering and erosion, the breaking down of rocks and minerals which are then carried from one place to another by water, ice, wind, and gravity.

Ms. Frizzle's class experiences the earth's water cycle firsthand.

A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.