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  • What Is a Landform?

    Series series Let's Find Out! Earth Science
    Landforms is the term used to describe the various features, shapes, and types of land that cover more than a quarter of the Earth’s surface. In this fascinating book, readers can find out about the variety of land formations found around the world—including plains, mountains, canyons, and caves. In line with the Common Core Standards for reading skills, key information is highlighted in detailed ... Read more

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  • Science

    Its History and Development

    Series series The Study of Science
    Even students who aren’t inclined toward the sciences will find this book a great read. It is as much about the history of humanity and our curiosity regarding the world around us as it is an informative survey of our scientific breakthroughs. Included are early achievements—such as the discovery of fire and written language—and modern triumphs of ingenuity such as space exploration, genetics, ... Read more

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  • What Is the Rock Cycle?

    Series series Let's Find Out! Earth Science
    Although rocks may initially seem like solid, unchanging substances, they are actually made up of minerals that change forms and get recycled through many different stages. This engaging book explores the rock cycle with diagrams and detailed photographs illustrating the movement of rocks through their various states, including magma-formed igneous rock, metamorphic rock such as marble, and ... Read more

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  • The New Nation

    Series series Early American History
    The roots of the newly formed United States of America are examined in detail in this volume. With evocative illustrations, paintings, maps, political documents, and other media largely drawn from the post-revolutionary era itself, this book details both the new nation’s growing pains and shortcomings, its major accomplishments and optimism, its sociocultural trends, and its rapid growth and ... Read more

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  • The Civil Rights Era

    Series series The African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency
    One of the most important chapters in American history, the civil rights era represents the path of recognition, acceptance, and lauding of one of America’s greatest assets: its black American citizenry. This resource guides readers through the key events, successes, and trials of the civil rights movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the assassination of Dr. ... Read more

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  • The History of Music

    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Visual and Performing Arts
    Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human society. Though musical theory did not develop until the nineteenth century, rhythm has had the power to move people for millennia. Readers will travel the river of musical time, from early Indian and Chinese conceptions, when music was first used as a sonic vector for religion, through its development in the Middle Ages to great ... Read more

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  • What Is Nonfiction?

    Series series The Britannica Common Core Library II
    In a nutshell, fiction is made up and nonfiction is real: real events, actual people, true facts, and verifiable ideas. This clear and easy-to-follow book cracks open the nutshell and goes well beyond, providing young readers with clear and engaging examples of nonfiction in action. With excerpts from and comparisons between essays, reports, and more, students will come away with a solid ... Read more

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  • What Is Weather?

    Series series Let's Find Out! Earth Science
    This all-inclusive book takes a wide range of meteorological phenomena—including clouds, rain, snow, and fog—and examines their relationship to each other in order to explain how weather works in an easy-to-grasp way. Important scientific concepts such as energy, temperature, and electricity are described in the context of the weather cycle as well as the various climates on Earth, and how we as ... Read more

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  • Extreme Sports and Their Greatest Competitors

    Series series Inside Sports II
    When asked to define what makes a sport extreme, one practitioner—a rock climber in the countryside and a skateboarder in the city—replied, “It’s a sport where you may well hurt yourself, or worse.” Readers of this compelling book will learn all about these alternative, edgy sports and what it takes to parachute from an airplane, zip-line through the air, or brave the possibility of a flash flood ... Read more

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  • Investigating the Abominable Snowman and Other Legendary Beasts

    Series series Understanding the Paranormal
    Hear “abominable” and you may well think disgusting, detestable, disagreeable. Hear “snowman” and you think adorable. But put the two words together—Abominable Snowman—and you get a mystery. In this page-turner, students will read about people who claim to have seen the creature—even to have preserved body parts. Yikes. Other people and groups included in this book aim to debunk what they see as ... Read more

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  • What Are Weather Instruments?

    Series series Let's Find Out! Weather
    If there’s one thing that many of us find ourselves talking about, it’s the weather. Such discussions, however, usually involve general observations, not data-based information derived from the instruments that actually measure such variables as air pressure, humidity, or wind strength. In this concise and compelling volume, young readers will be treated to clear information and useful ... Read more

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  • What Is a Folktale?

    Series series The Britannica Common Core Library
    This enchanting book delves into the history of folktales, or stories made up by peoples around the world to teach important values to their children. Traditional folktales from a variety of Native American communities and distant countries such as India and Botswana are all presented to show the commonalities shared by such diverse cultures in their classic stories. Artwork and paintings ... Read more

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