Discoveries category: 238 books

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by Gail Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Here are the most recent theories about the history of dinosaurs, backed up with amazing facts about dinosaur discoveries. Gibbons discusses the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaccous periods and many of the non-bird dinosaurs that lived during each of those times.
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by Suzanne Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Amidst more than 200 billion stars in a galaxy measuring 100,000 light years across, life has been discovered only in one place in the Milky Way: planet Earth. Yet the Milky Way is only one of many galaxies in the vast universe. While extraterrestrial life remains a mystery, explore discoveries about...
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Planetary Science

Explore New Frontiers

by Matthew Brenden Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

What do you see when you look up into the sky at night? The moon, stars, maybe even a comet or asteroid? You can also see other planets! In Planetary Science: Explore New Frontiers, readers ages 12 to 15 embark on a journey through the solar system and beyond, exploring planets, moons, dwarf...
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Planets And Moons In Our Universe

Fun Facts and Pictures for Kids

by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Space exploration is incredibly popular right now with adults and children alike, every day brings news about discoveries in our solar system and beyond. Kids in particular are always excited by all things space related. A picture book is the perfect gift for kids because it brings the excitement and...
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Mission to Pluto

The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

by Mary Kay Carson, Tom Uhlman
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of...
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How We Got to Now

Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not--but you should, and New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores...
Cover of Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird
by Stephanie Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature;...
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by Ellen Labrecque
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015

This book traces the life of George Washington Carver, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the agricultural discoveries for which he is best known. A timeline at the end of the book summarizes key milestones and achievements of Carver's life.
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POLLEN

Darwin's 130-Year Prediction

by Darcy Pattison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

POLLEN: DARWIN’S 130 YEAR PREDICTION **Junior Library Guild selection** “POLLEN is extraordinary! What a great story that encapsulates so many important concepts in science - pollination, structure and function of living things, and how scientific discoveries take time. It is so...
Cover of Where Is Our Solar System?
by Stephanie Sabol, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system. Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center...
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This Little Scientist

A Discovery Primer

by Joan Holub
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

Learn all about scientists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for inventors-in-training! Asking why. Then making a guess. Asking how. Then proving with tests. Little scientists make great big discoveries. In this follow up to This Little President,...
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by Melissa Stewart, Steve Brusatte
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

Everyone knows that Tyrannosaurus rex is the huge dinosaur with sharp claws and tiny arms. But in this appealing level 2 picture book from acclaimed science writer Melissa Stewart, you’ll learn that T. rex is not the only tyrannosaur that existed in prehistoric times. In the last fifteen...
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by William B. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

People have been studying the earth for thousands of years! This fascinating book will introduce readers to those who made big discoveries in geology. Through vibrant photos and easy-to-read text, readers will learn about such early geologists as James Hutton, William Smith, Alfred Wegener, Florence...

DNA

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DNA

by Wendy Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

DNA is known as the blueprint for life! Found in every cell of every living thing, DNA strands are packed inside a cell’s nucleus carrying instructions and genetic information. Climb the double helix ladder and crack the DNA code in this fact-filled life science book to explore genetics and why...
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