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"Instructs readers on several painting techniques using nail polish. Also includes step-by-step projects for decorating various items in the home and office"--.

Introduces the science of chemistry and the scientific method, shows how chemistry is used in developing health and beauty products, and suggests related experiments.

An introduction to taking old toys apart and building new toys with the parts.

Jamal, who will be in the fifth grade, and his little sister Nina, who is going into first grade, go shopping for school supplies.

Introduces the science of chemistry and the scientific method, shows how chemistry is used in developing health and beauty products, and suggests related experiments.

Describes the features, sounds, and role of each musical instrument in the orchestra.

Photographs and text trace the process by which a car is made, from the mining of the iron ore, until the vehicle hits the road.

Examines the development of children's toys in America in the twentieth century and discusses the influence of the Industrial Revolution and mass media to the types and ways toys are produced as well as the violence, sexism, racism, and danger associated with some toys.

Instructions for making prints from bubblewrap, puppets from cardboard boxes, and other arts and crafts projects using discarded packaging.

Presents step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for making more than twenty-five kinds of paper airplanes out of sticky notes.