Provides guidance on how to do research, including how to use libraries and their resources, the Internet, and other sources such as interviews and surveys.
Profiles seven modern achievements in exploration technology, such as space telescopes, the Large Hadron Collider, and rovers, discussing their development and qualities, and examining their contributions to scientific or technological advances.
In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
