Taking readers through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, this ultimate guide to all things prehistoric provides young paleontologists with information on more than one thousand incredible species, tracing their evolution through the dinosaur era.

Twenty-nine essays present explorations and observations on a variety of scientific and medical subjects.

Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.

Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

After being caught by a hunter, a clever turtle uses her wits and her talent playing the flute to trick the hunter's children into helping her escape.

A child is informed about the importance of nutritional health and how to get that in a well balanced diet.

"A lavishly illustrated guide to the world's turtles that covers every family and genus. Turtles of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these amazing reptiles. Characterized by the bony shell that acts as a shield to protect the softer body within, turtles are survivors from the time of the dinosaurs and are even more ancient in evolutionary terms than snakes and crocodilians. Of more than 350 species known today, some are highly endangered....

"A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives of girls and women in rural America"--

Learn how airplanes fly by doing experiments that help to explain the concept of airplane engineering.

Compares the sleeping habits of animals with those of human babies.