lightning

Explores the science of motion, forces, energy, and electricity, using a monster vehicle race as a means of calculating speed and acceleration, looking at the connection between roller coasters and physics, discussing the role of heat in modern bridge construction, and explaining the causes of lightning.

Simple text and photographs explain what lightning is and how it forms.

Simple text and full-color photographs describe lightning and how it forms, in both English and Spanish.

Describes what thunder and lightning are, and how to stay safe when lightning strikes.

Describes the power of lightning and its positive and negative effects on living things. Includes safety tips on what to do in case lightning strikes.

When his face is changed into that of a snake after he visits a forbidden cave, a young boy wears a mask for twenty years, before being taken into the sky.

Focuses on Ben Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiments of flying a kite during a rain storm.

Explains in simple terms the reasons for thunder and lightning.

Many of Newton Starker's ancestors, including his mother, have been killed by lightning strikes, so when he enrolls at the eccentric Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he tries to be a model student so that he can avoid the same fate.

Examines the truth and myth surrounding Benjamin Franklin's kite-flying experiment in electrical science. Describes the competitive scientific field in the mid-eighteenth century during which English and French rivals tried to out-do Franklin's international success. Presents the viewpoint that Franklin never flew the kite at all and was a prankster who outwitted the competition.