scientists

Provides a biography of software engineer and scientist Margaret Hamilton. Discusses her childhood, education, and passion for space. Includes color photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

Briefly examines the life of astronaut Ellen Ochoa, who was a young girl when the first astronauts walked on the Moon, and the obstacles she had to overcome to become the first female Hispanic American astronaut.

In this reader's theater script, Galileo Galilei's work on the telescope puts him in trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. Includes performance tips, a glossary, a poem, and a song.

Presents a biography of Benjamin Franklin focusing on his pursuits in the natural sciences, as well as his fame in Paris, where Ben Franklin dolls, ashtrays, and wallpaper were sold.

Eerie Elementary is planning a big Halloween-type celebration for Eerie Day, including hosting a "haunted house" at the school itself; but the spirit of the evil scientist Orson Eerie sees this as the chance to finally triumph over the intrepid hall moniters, Sam, Lucy, and Antonio--and it is up to them to prevent a catastrophe and perhaps even defeat Orson and banish him from the school forever.

"Bella, twelve, and Marcus, thirteen, join Fabien Cousteau's research team off the coasts of South Africa and Australia as they try to find and tag an extraordinarily large great white shark. Inserts include facts about sharks and other marine animals, equipment used by researchers studying sharks, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Photographs, illustrations, and facts provide information on the life of Benjamin Franklin and on the topics covered in Magic Tree House #32 'To the Future, Ben Franklin!'.

Sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin, who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building, in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait.

While on detention for disrupting a science lesson, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to 1939 where they try to protect the privacy and even the life of Albert Einstein as he struggles to decide whether he should help build an atomic bomb to stop Hitler.

Presents H. G. Wells's science fiction classic "The Time Machine" and includes explanatory notes, an outline of plots and themes, critical analysis, a Wells chronology, discussion questions, and other study tools.