A true book

Photographs and text describe how astronauts' bodies cope with space travel. Includes simple experiments for children.

Presents the cultural, social, and historical achievements of the Wampanoags.

Text and photos describe the historic life of the Lakota Sioux, discussing their move west from Minnesota in the 1700s, the Seven Council Fires, the importance of the buffalo and the hunt, religion, resistance to the U.S. government, and modern Lakota ways of living.

Describes the properties and uses of water, its importance to life on earth, and the water cycle.

An account of petroleum from its extraction to its uses.

Text and color photos describe the Gulf of Mexico, including its geology, its properties as a body of water, its wildlife, its weather, the human life surrounding it, and factors affecting it such as pollution.

Describes different types of wood, where various kinds of trees grow, and how wood is processed and used.

Presents an introduction to termites, explaining what they are, what they look like, their colonies and homes, eating behaviors, and enemies and defenses.

Explores the sense of taste and the body parts used to produce it as well as its relationship to smell.

Provides photographs and information about the Pacific Ocean, discussing its location and size, its geographical features, the effects of its waves and tides, some of the plants and animals that live in and around its waters, and the dangers of pollution.