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How Does a Battery Work?
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Author: Roman Wilson
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781433983993
Grade Level: 2-3
Reviewer: Sally Bell
Review: Battery power, where does it come from? Your students can explore this colorful book to find the answers. Give this book to students and watch the charge they will receive as they learn how a battery works.
Young readers want their explanations to be quick and easy. This book covers the topic in that manner and so much more. Divided into nine stand–alone chapters, from battery worki...
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The History of Agriculture
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Author: Gini Gorlinski
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781615309191
Grade Level: 9-12
Reviewer: Richard Lord
Review: Agriculture, the raising of crops and domestic animals for food and other purposes, originated independently in a variety of places. From southwestern Asia 12,000 years ago to eastern North America 500 years ago, various populations and cultures domesticated plants for food. From the prehistoric to the present, from hunter gatherers to farmers, this concise book uses archaeological and other evide...
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The Science of Nutrition
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Author: Kara Rogers
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781615309207
Grade Level: 9-12
Reviewer: Jean Worsley
Review: With the national and international focus on wellness and healthy living, The Science of Nutrition is indeed a timely book. In nine chapters, there are an array of topics aligned with the influence of nutrition in our daily lives. Background information with colorful illustrations and concise biographies of pioneers (nutritionists, biochemists, and physicians) reveal the relationship between food ...
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How to Succeed as a Scientist
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Author: Barbara J. Gabrys and Jane A. Langdale
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9780521186834
Grade Level: College
Reviewer: Cary Seidman
Review: High school or college students planning to pursue any number of careers—teacher, accountant, doctor, lawyer, and many others—will find generally predictable and consistent paths laid out for them. A young person seeking to become a scientist will find a less defined course of action. This book seeks to remedy that uncertainty.
Authors Barbara Gambril and Jane Langdale offer an acc...
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On the Move
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Author: Scotti Cohn
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781607186168
Grade Level: K-3
Reviewer: Sarah Haines
Review: This is a charming book from which young readers can get their first glimpse into the wonders of animal migration. The book does a wonderful job of answering the simple question that might be asked by a youngster in a K–3 classroom: Why do animals gather together each year?
The text begins with an age appropriate definition of migration, then follows with examples from many represe...
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Ferdinand Fox's First Summer
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Author: Mary Holland
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781607186144
Grade Level: K-3
Reviewer: Judy Kraus
Review: An irresistible kit fox greets the reader on the cover of this book and draws one into the world of Ferdinand and his family of red fox. Facts about the kit fox's life cycle, adaptations, and food preferences abound in this exquisite, photographic journey through the first year of life.
During the first year, a kit goes through many changes, beginning in the den where it is born. Af...
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Shaking the Foundation
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Author: Sylvia A. Johnson
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9780761354864
Grade Level: 6-12
Reviewer: Donald Logsdon Jr.
Review: Natural selection is the basic model for the mechanism of evolution developed by Charles Darwin. It is hard to imagine trying to understand modern biology without a clear knowledge of how this works. The author has prepared an interesting discussion of natural selection geared towards the budding young scientist, describing how Darwin developed this idea and the roles played by prominent individua...
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Wetlands
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Author: Cathryn Sill
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9781561456895
Grade Level: K-2
Reviewer: Jacqueline Pfeiffer
Review: Did you know that there are at least eight types of wetlands, and that each one has significant differences? Each wetland has different plants and animals, but all are vital to help maintain the delicate balance among Earth's environments. This book will answer the questions readers have about fragile and important wetland habitats.
Part of a series on habitats (which includes NSTA/...
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A Universe From Nothing
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Author: Lawrence M. Krauss
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9781451624465
Grade Level: College
Reviewer: David Brock
Review: The author takes the reader on a tour of how modern cosmology came to its understanding of the origin and nature of the universe. He starts with the basics—the role of the theory of general relativity and the work of Hubble in laying the foundations for the “Big Bang” theory—and explains how discovery of an expanding universe led to the need for the concepts of “dark matter” and “dark energy.” He ...
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The Whole Story of Climate
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Author: E. Kirsten Peters
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9781616146726
Grade Level: College
Reviewer: Marc Zucker
Review: This book for adult readers takes a different approach than many other climate books currently out there. E. Kristen Peters gives us a wide–lens view of the history of climate science and the people that have been involved with our current state of knowledge.
The book starts with a look at the Ice Age and naturalist Louis Agassiz. As Peters moves through the complexities of building...
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