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Bel The Weather Girl: Raindrops On A Roller Coaster: Hail, Kristie Hinckley
Bel The Weather Girl: Raindrops On A Roller Coaster: Hail, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Bel, Dylan, and their dog Stormy discover hail in this next adventure in the Bel the Weather Girl series. They are surprised to learn that hailstorms actually happen during summer months, not winter. Hail is made inside storm clouds when raindrops are carried to the top of the clouds where it’s cold. Those raindrops turn into balls of ice that become too heavy, falling to the earth. Basically, they are like raindrops on an icy roller coaster!
The Hybrid Chronicles Book #2: Once We Were, Lisa Packard
The Hybrid Chronicles Book #2: Once We Were, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
As fugitives of the law, Eva and Addie are safe . . . for now. Although they have to stay indoors to remain unrecognized, they are still trying to find the other children that were taken from the hospital. They find other souls like them and come up with a plan to expose the corrupted government and their maltreatment of the hybrid population. Addie and Eva start to question how far they are willing to go for the hybrid cause when they discover that their friends are planning on blowing up a hospital with innocent people inside it. Eva and …
Fundamental Experiments: Color, Ariel Woodbury
Fundamental Experiments: Color, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Sunlight is made up of a bunch of colors all mixed together, but when sunlight passes through water it separates and we can see all the colors of the rainbow! Lots of colors are made the same way, and you can discover what colors are used in your markers by doing an experiment with just water and a paper towel. Darker colors absorb light and lighter colors reflect light, so wearing a white t-shirt on a hot day can help keep you cool. Animals use color to stay safe with camouflage.
Creekfinding: A True Story, Tessa Mcmillan
Creekfinding: A True Story, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Many years ago, a creek ran through the Iowan countryside. It teemed with fish and insects, attracting local wildlife to the creek’s plentiful banks. All of that changed when a farmer bought the acreage and bulldozed the creek away from its natural course. For years the land was farmed until a new owner, Mike, bought the property. Mike wanted to restore the parcel to its original wildness by bringing back the creek. Many thought Mike’s plans were foolish, but he moved forward, confident in his vision. After much research, hard work, and help, Mike found and restored the creek to …
Max Flash: Mission 1: Game On, Becky Jamieson
Max Flash: Mission 1: Game On, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
All his life Max Flash has practiced magic tricks and being an escape artist. However, like most kids he also has a passion for video games. Now Max is being asked to put these skills to use in a way that he had never thought possible. It is his mission to enter a virtual world filled with video game characters that are bent on killing him and escaping through a portal into the real world. With the help of computer programmers on the outside Max stops the game characters from leaving and manages to pass through the portal just before …
Reindeer, Kristie Hickley
Reindeer, Kristie Hickley
Children's Book and Media Review
This is a non-fiction book that will answer all of your questions about reindeer! The table of contents will help readers find topics that they are interested in learning more about. Each page spread included information about one specific topic related to the life of a reindeer. There are four to five short sentences on the left with labeled pictures and fun facts on the right. Readers will learn that reindeer have hairy noses, that both male and female reindeer have antlers, and that reindeer can swim! The adorable pictures of reindeer calves might leave readers ready for a trip …
What Is It Made Of? Noticing Types Of Materials, Ariel Woodbury
What Is It Made Of? Noticing Types Of Materials, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Ms. Sampson's class learns about different kind of materials and what we use to make things. Materials have different uses and textures. The class goes on a scavenger hunt to find different types of materials around them. They notice similarities between different materials they find.
When Will It Rain? Noticing Weather Patterns, Ariel Woodbury
When Will It Rain? Noticing Weather Patterns, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Mr. Davis's class is doing a weather project. They observe and record the weather to look for patterns. A meteorologist visits the class and teaches them about air pressure, hurricanes, and tools she uses to predict the weather.
The Case Of The Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery, Aylea Stephens
The Case Of The Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Beekeepers have discovered that several of their bees have inexplicably gone missing. Without honeybees, many foods cannot get pollenated and be able to grow. In January 2007, beekeepers from across the world gathered to discuss the loss of the bees, calling the problem Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Without the essential worker bees, the hive cannot survive. Scientists have tried to find the problem with the disappearing bees, researching to see if urban development, overwork from farmers transporting bees year-round across the country for pollination, cell phones, mites, fungi, and other issues have contributed to CCD. No one knows for sure …
Scientists In The Field: The Manatee Scientists: The Science Of Saving The Vulnerable, Aylea Stephens
Scientists In The Field: The Manatee Scientists: The Science Of Saving The Vulnerable, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In this book, scientists detail their work with manatees and what goes into deciding that a species should be on the endangered list. In the Amazon, Dr. Fernando Rosas specializes in manatees and how to help them survive in that area. He tracks manatees with a transmitter so he can study manatee physiology in the wild along with his studies of manatees in tanks when baby or injured manatees are brought to the scientists. For him, a major challenge is finding a safe place to release these manatees into the wild. Other scientists study Florida manatees and do population surveys …
Lives Of The Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (And What The Neighbors Thought), Aylea Stephens
Lives Of The Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (And What The Neighbors Thought), Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Scientists have made discoveries that change our world, but they were also real people who irritated their neighbors and had favorite foods. The book details lives of scientists Zhang Heng, Ibn Sina, Galileo, Isaac Netwon, William and Caroline Herschel, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Ivan Pavlov, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Barbara McClintock, Grace Murray Hopper, Rachel Carson, Chien-Shiung Wu, James D. Watson and Francis Crick, and Jane Goodall. In each short biography, it shows an illustration of the scientist, details what contributions that scientist made to the world, and interesting things about them that will interest …
Nancy Clancy #2: Secret Admirer, Amanda Durrant
Nancy Clancy #2: Secret Admirer, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
In this book, Nancy devises a plan to get her newly single, teenage guitar teacher Andy and her babysitter Annie to fall in love. Nancy and her best friend Bree leave notes and little gifts from a secret admirer for Annie in a scheme the girls derived to make the teens fall in eternal love. Nancy's plan gets Annie and Andy together for a meeting on Valentine's Day, but they do not fall in eternal love as the girls had hoped. The girls' scheme is found out, but Nancy and Bree are not giving up because Nancy's mother tells the …