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Describes the behavior and habitat of the tule elk.

Using transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two others who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury.

Describes the movement and migration of mammals and amphibians over varying conditions of land, covering such species as lemmings, elephants, caribou, and frogs.

Describes the migration of marine animals and plants as they journey through rivers, seas, and oceans.

An introduction to sign language for young children.

Describes the formation, naming, and colonization of the twenty-seven-year-old volcanic island Surtsey and how the first animals and plants became established there.

Encouraged by his gregarious sister and his trusty Superman cape, five-year-old Teddy takes his first steps toward independence.

Presents ten projects that use energy from the sun, including making a sun clock and sun prints and cooking with the sun.

During the summer between first and second grades, Elisa struggles to write to her brother Russell at camp and then enjoys a family vacation in the country.

Describes nine strange natural phenomena and possible explanations for them, including the day it rained frogs, an atomic explosion that occurred forty years before the atom bomb, and an eerie crystal skull.