Melissa Stewart

Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.

Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?

Your mouth contains more bacteria than a dog's. Money is covered with germs that can make you sick. The germs in a sneeze travel only an arm's length. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen statements about the microscopic world and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find out whether...

How are polar bears related to pandas? For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have tried to organize and understand, or classify, the relationships among Earth's animals and plants. Early classification systems were cumbersome and inconsistent. In the late 1720s, Carl Linnaeus began developing a classification system to describe relationships among all living things, including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. This organization, called...

An introduction to droughts describes what they are, how they affect people, and how scientists keep track of rainfall, along with activities readers can do at home.

Discusses the varieties of tyrannosaurs and their characteristics, including the Qianzhousaurus Rex, or Pinocchio Rex, which was discovered in 2014 and gained its nickname due to its pointy nose.

¡AHORA EN ESPAÑOL! Las hormigas se encuentran en todas partes. Y ya que los niños están siempre cerca de la tierra, muchas veces son ellas el primer animal que observan y estudian - ¡a veces con la intensidad de científicos profesionales! Con este libro, los niños las conocerán de cerca. Las hormigas pueden ser de diferentes tamaños y colores, y tienen distintas maneras de prosperar en los lugares donde viven. Y sí que prosperan, y a veces...

They're SSSSLITHERY! SLIPPERY! They creep us out! But get to know them and you'll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on certain tails, these creatures have secrets all kids will love. Cool photos and fun facts slip us inside their surprising world.

Come face-to-face with sharks, wolves, tigers, and many more predators in this gripping new addition to the National Geographic Kids Reader series. Amazing animal photos will wow kids as they discover how predators hunt, raise their young, and contribute to the food chain. This Level 2 reader is written in easy-to-grasp text and will help kids understand who rules in the wild!

Find out what happens when predator is pitted against predator in this exciting, informative reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information about some of the world's most amazing creatures for beginning readers.