Sally M Walker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! People, animals, machines, and wind all make sounds. But have you ever seen how sound waves move? Or made a sound wave bounce? Now you can! Explore sound with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Solids, liquids, and gases are the three states of matter. But have you ever made matter change from one state to another? Or seen how even invisible matter takes up space? Now you can! Explore matter with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The sun, furnaces, and ovens all make heat. But have you ever watched matter expand when it is heated? Or seen how different kinds of matter conduct heat? Now you can! Explore heat with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Electricity powers lights, computers, and television sets. But have you seen how electricity can make objects stick together? Or make other objects pull apart? Now you can! Explore electricity with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The sun, lightbulbs, and flickering fires all bring light to our world. But have you ever watched light rays moving? Or seen how light rays reflect off objects? Now you can! Explore light with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Where does electricity come from? How does it make a computer run or a light bulb shine? Electricity is a form of energy that can be used in many ways. Starting with the tiny particles that make up atomselectrons, protons, and neutronsthis book highlights the basics of how electricity works and furthers understanding through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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You know that magnets hold pictures on a refrigerator. But have you ever found a magnet's north pole? Or turned an ordinary paper clip into a magnet? Now you can! Explore magnetism with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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In the time when witches tiptoe about to have their Halloween fun, ancient Druscilla knows her creaking knees will prevent her from being sneaky and sets out to find a silent conveyance for herself, her cat, and her jack-o-lantern.
9) Mosquitoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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In this Early Bird title, readers learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the mosquito.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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In 1938, off the coast of South Africa, a woman found a strange blue fish with four stubby fins, pointed spines, and a funny looking tail-it was a coelacanth! Until that very moment, the world had believed that coelacanths were extinct. Suddenly, scientists around the world were excited-could more of these unusual creatures be found and studied? Discover how scientists worked to solve the mystery of these extraordinary fish.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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What a discovery! Deep under the Atlantic Ocean, divers found a shipwreck like no other. It was the H. L. Hunley, a submarine that had sunk during the Civil War! A team of scientists from all over the world came to work on the discovery. How would they raise the Hunley from the ocean floor? How would they open the submarine? And what would they find inside?
12) Opossums
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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In this Early Bird title, readers learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the opossum.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
You know that magnets hold pictures on a refrigerator. But have you ever found a magnet's north pole? Or turned an ordinary paper clip into a magnet? Now you can! Explore magnetism with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series sheds light on a key science question―How Does Energy Work? Hands-on experiments, interesting photos, and useful diagrams will help you find the answer!
14) Electricity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Where does electricity come from? How does it make a computer run or a light bulb shine? Electricity is a form of energy that can be used in many ways. Starting with the tiny particles that make up atoms-electrons, protons, and neutrons-this book highlights the basics of how electricity works and furthers understanding through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Rocks, ice, and snow. That is all Dr. William Hammer and his crew can see when they look at the land around them on Earth's coldest continent. But on top of a mountain, the scientists discover a 190-million-year-old fossil. It is the remains of the first dinosaur found on mainland Antarctica. Learn more about the hunt for fossils in Antarctica and what life might have been like there millions of years ago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
17) SuperCroc Found
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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110 million years ago, a lush river flowed through the heart of what is now a desert in Africa. Lurking in the depths of the river, a humungous monster waited for its prey to come to the river's edge to drink…and to die. More than 40 feet long, this giant ancestor of the crocodile stalked and killed dinosaurs. In 1997, dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno discovered the enormous reptile fossil named SuperCroc. Learn how modern science uncovers the ancient...
18) La luz (Light)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Where does light come from? What do colors have to do with light? Light is a form of energy. Life on Earth is made possible because light from the sun carries heat to the earth. This book explores the essential concepts of lightphotons, color, refraction, light rays and waves, etc.through a series of easy-to-do experiments readers will enjoy doing.
19) Matter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
20) Heat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Why do some things heat up quickly while others don't? How can heat cause matter to change form-from solid to liquid to gas and back again? Heat cannot be seen, but it can easily be felt. Looking at different objects' molecular makeup, this book describes the fundamentals of heat and furthers understanding through a series of easy experiments.