Presents an introduction to science for elementary age students, covering the properties of materials, and including a brief history of science events within the topic, vocabulary words and definitions, illustrations and photographs, and an index.
When Heidi is paired with Stanley, her worst enemy's best friend, for the Brewster Science Fair and she suddenly starts getting notes from a secret admirer, she tries to use magic to discover the note-writer's identity.
Reviews the history of skateboarding, and looks at the influence of science and technology on how skateboards are made, safety issues, clothing and gear, and riding techniques.
20 projects and experiments about junk, garbage, waste, things we don't need any more, and ways to recycle or reuse it -- or lose it
Young, Karen Romano
Shares informative scientific facts about everyday garbage, from the waste produced in a school cafeteria and the decomposition rates of trash bags to the cost-effectiveness of rechargeable batteries and ways to use garbage for science-fair experiments.
On a remote island in the Pacific, scientists created the Vitros, made in test tubes and given superhuman knowledge and abilities. Seventeen-year-old Sophie travels to the island searching for her mother, and discovers she has a Vitro twin who needs her protection.
Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.
