For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe. --Publisher

What's a spacewalk? Step outside your space vehicle, and you're spacewalking! Whether you're collecting samples, fixing equipment, or sightseeing, spacewalking is an out-of-this-world experience!

Bursting with creative hands-on outdoor science and art activities, "Little Bit of DIrt" is full of motivation to get outside and explore.

The technology boom of recent years has given kids numerous reasons to stay inside and play, while parents' increasing safety concerns make it tempting to keep children close to home. But what is being lost as fewer kids spend their free time outdoors? Deprived of meaningful contact with nature, children often fail to develop a significant relationship with the natural world, much less a sense of reverence and respect for the world outside their doors....

It's Fall now and the Cayuga Island Kids are busy with homework, projects, and after school activities. But there's still plenty of time for mystery and adventure! In the third book in the Cayuga Island Kids chapter book series, Julian is exploring food science as he experiments with recipes on his quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Being a cookie sampler takes Mac's mind off his troubles with fractions. Yoko is practicing gestures and facial...

Book for all ages, 13 to 21+, because we all need to know! Civilized animal friends, at Rodney, the rock n' roll Rabbit's party, play: "Way Out Yonder", from Perky the powerful partying Panther's bag of games. Win, making smart choices to stop environmental disasters from affecting OUR Planet... They stop fictional play, to face; protect real-life happenings; including culprits' (such as Republicans &; their polluting allies) denying Global Warming...

The life of a female black-throated blue warbler over the course of a single breeding season, from migration to migration. An exploration of the natural environment and a celebration of the tenacity of life. An exploration of where the natural sciences meet the natural world and the impact we have on the places we work to protect.

There once was a city by the sea, where the streets hummed with power, yet no one was free... Told through an ensemble of interconnected perspectives, Tyler Heggans' When Our Haven Burned blends poetry, sign language, folklore, and science to bring readers along an unforgettable journey of passion, loyalty, and humanity. From the top of his gold encrusted tower, Aldrix Sterling looks down upon a city lit by his power but darkened by his greed. Amidst...

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband,...

A National Book Award-winning, New York Times best-selling historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.