Owen, Ruth

Reluctant readers will clamor to learn how to gross out friends with worm sandwiches and how to douse enemies with exploding soda along with many other tricks. Simple yet impressive, each practical joke is explained in straight forward steps accompanied by photos.

Introduces the different cats in the American longhair breed.

Overlooking the River Nile and guarding the Giza pyramids is one of the world?s oldest and largest statues, the Sphinx. Learn about how the Egyptians built the massive statue.

Discover why some ancient Egyptians dared to risk their lives to steal from the dead. Readers will also learn about the tricks tomb and pyramid builders used to hide burial chambers from grave robbers.

Readers will turn their investigative skills to studying animals. Students will meet a host of animals including blue whales, chameleons, and spiders.

Readers will investigate how the world around them changes as the seasons change.

Readers will learn all about their skeletons, muscles, hearts, lungs, and blood. They'll also discover how to take care of their bodies.

Readers will investigate simple food chains and natural habitats, including a garden, forest, tide pool, desert, and even a tree stump micro-habitat.

Readers will develop an understanding of living, non-living, and things that used to be alive.

Readers will investigate and discover a range of animal life cycles.