November 27, 2024 11:38 am
Published by priyahpi
This book is designed to ignite your child's interest in chemistry and other STEM topics, while introducing them to the basics of chemistry in a fun and approachable way. Your child will gain a practical understanding of how the water molecule is formed in the first story and then explore the fascinating world of noble gases and their non-bonding properties including knowing why helium balloons float!
December 3, 2024 7:50 am
Published by priyahpi
The true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster.
Mexican American Mario Molina is a modern-day hero who helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s. Growing up in Mexico City, Mario was a curious boy who studied hidden worlds through a microscope. As a young man in California, he discovered that CFCs, used in millions of refrigerators and spray cans, were tearing a hole in the earth's protective ozone layer. Mario knew the world had to be warned--and quickly.
December 3, 2024 4:36 pm
Published by priyahpi
Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky.
November 29, 2024 8:56 am
Published by priyahpi
An amazing flap book packed with inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines, toilets, escalators, submarines and microwaves and many, many other machines.
December 18, 2024 6:36 am
Published by priyahpi
Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? This author uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
- food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
- tall roads (bridges)
- computer buildings (datacenters)
- planes with turning wings (helicopters)
- boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
- the bags of stuff inside you (cells)
November 30, 2024 6:00 pm
Published by priyahpi
Find out all about atoms, what they are and where they come from - and how these tiny particles combine to make up EVERYTHING in the universe (including you). Packed with intriguing facts, this is an entertaining and accessible introduction to key scientific ideas.
November 29, 2024 10:34 am
Published by priyahpi
This book follows the day of a little boy, demonstrating with each page, how Black inventors have greatly enriched our nation's landscape.
November 29, 2024 8:28 am
Published by priyahpi
Why are ions so important? Life and our universe would not exist without ions to create an endless amount of compounds.
December 4, 2024 10:07 pm
Published by priyahpi
Jack and his foster siblings, Ava and Matt, are not your typical kids—they’re geniuses. Well, Ava and Matt are. Ava speaks multiple languages and builds robots for fun, and Matt is an expert astronomer and math whiz. As for Jack, it’s hard to stand out when surrounded by geniuses all the time.
January 17, 2025 8:35 am
Published by priyahpi
After receiving a stuffed animal chimpanzee for her first birthday, Jane Goodall's love of animals only grew. She saw what humans and animals had in common, not what makes us different, and used that to advocate for animal rights everywhere, becoming famous for her work with chimpanzees.
December 4, 2024 7:48 am
Published by priyahpi
Are you ready for an exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth? Packed full of fascinating facts and funny illustrations, this is the perfect introduction to life on earth for even the youngest of readers.
December 12, 2024 11:20 am
Published by priyahpi
Entertaining biographies of inventors and scientists that are perfect for young readers, developing scientists and critical thinkers, containing hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement the easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists' sketches and notebooks.
December 2, 2024 10:56 am
Published by priyahpi
We depend on electricity in almost everything that we do. It gives us heat, light, transportation and entertainment. Electricity has always existed, but it is only in the last 200 years or so that we have learned how to make use of it. Find out what electricity does for us – and how we managed without it in the past.
December 12, 2024 10:25 am
Published by priyahpi
At the start of the twentieth century, Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, stunned the scientific world. Her research led to the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She also examined the most unusual property of these elements: radioactivity.
December 21, 2024 8:30 pm
Published by priyahpi
Mary is an enterprising young inventor. One day she realizes she has no friends, so she decides a pet will do the trick. But the pet Mary wants isn't one she can easily buy...so she makes one―and it's a sheep, of course! Soon Mary, her sheep, and her new invention gain her popularity and friends. But when she starts making sheep for her new friends, chaos abounds.
December 12, 2024 11:47 am
Published by priyahpi
Join young Kip on his adventure as he sets out to seek his fortune with nothing but a single apple to his name. Along the way, Kip meets a wizard with mysterious plans and encounters situations that introduce us to some of the foundations of physics, including Newton's laws of motion.
