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By Julie Morgenstern, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon. 2002
Professional organizer and her teenage daughter offer a method for getting one's life in order using time management and other…
strategies. Presents anecdotes and checklists to suggest ways to organize home, school, and outside activities. For senior high and older readers. 2002By Christopher Sloan. 2002
Describes the discovery of 110 million-year-old SuperCroc fossils in the sub-saharan desert of Niger. Discusses the lifestyles, habitats, and conservation…
of modern crocodiles as well as their ancestors. For grades 5-8. 2002By Janet Buell. 1998
Describes the excavation of a 2,500 year-old burial mound in southern Siberia where horses' corpses and the undisturbed tomb of…
a Pazyryk woman were discovered. From these and similar remains, Russian archaeologists are learning about the culture of the horse-loving Pazyryk people. For grades 6-9. 1998By Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick. 2001
Discusses general features of these two dinosaur groups, their similarities, and differences. The sauropods were the longest, tallest, and heaviest…
land animals ever to walk the Earth. Describes a blooper that misled scientists for over a century and the discovery of fossil dinosaur eggs in Argentina. For grades 5-8. 2001By Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick. 2002
Discusses what is known about these plant-eating dinosaurs who relied on heavily armored bodies, tail clubs and spikes, or rock-hard…
skulls to discourage opposition. Among other topics, it covers their evolution, geographic range, feeding habits, and special adaptations. For grades 5-8. 2002By Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick. 2001
By Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick. 2001
Discusses the characteristics of this "beast foot" group that spanned the entire age of dinosaurs--one hundred sixty million years. Describes…
what they looked like, how they hunted and devoured their prey, and how they evolved. For grades 5-8. 2001By Inc. Staff Scholastic, Windsor Chorlton. 2001
Discusses the first recovery of a complete adult woolly mammoth and the difficulties of excavating it from Siberia. Explains what…
scientists have learned about where these giant plant eaters lived, how they spent their days, and why the species became extinct. For grades 4-7. 2001By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Paul Carrick, Bruce Shillinglaw. 2001
Explains how scientists form theories about the way dinosaur parents behaved with their hatchlings. Tells how new fossil discoveries lead…
to identifying new species that may cause scientists to change their ideas about dinosaur family life. For grades 3-6. 2001By Sally M Walker, Sally M. Walker. 2002
Describes scientists' excitement when a specimen of fish thought to be extinct was discovered in a trawler's catch off the…
South African coast in 1938. Discusses subsequent searches for the elusive deep-water coelacanth and what has been learned about it through scientific research. For grades 5-8. 2002By Richard Norris. 2000
A scientist uncovers evidence that a significant meteorite plunged to Earth in prehistoric times. It had a huge impact on…
fauna and flora and may have caused mass extinction of animal life--including the dinosaurs. For grades 5-8. 2000Profiles eight pioneers in the study of dinosaurs and explains how scientific knowledge is cumulative. Clinton notes that dinosaurs were…
unknown until 1824 when Georges Cuvier identified the first dinosaur bone, describing it as belonging to a whale-sized lizard. Now three hundred kinds of dinosaurs are known to vertebrate paleontologists. For junior and senior high readersBy Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, William Muñoz. 2003
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's latest collaboration examines the rich array of plant life encountered by Lewis and Clark on their expedition.…
Lewis was trained in the identification and preservation of plants before the expedition and wrote about the plants he saw and some of which can still be seen today. For grades 4-7By Anita Holmes. 1974
By Bernice Kohn Hunt. 1972
Simple guide to ecological living in the city or country. The author includes tips for gardeners and recipes for such…
natural foods as yogurt, bread, granola, and soup. For grades 5-9By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Julius Csotonyi. 2019
A look at the history of life on Earth starts in the present and goes back hundreds of millions of…
years to the Ediacaran Period, profiling the creatures that existed at each time. For grades 2-4. 2019By Jennifer Bradbury, Sam Boughton. 2021
By Cristina Garces, Disney Books, Disney Books. 2014
Disney characters share their favorite Christmas recipes, including Belle's classic winter porridge for breakfast, Lightning McQueen's pot pie for dinner,…
and Pooh Bear's mini honey buns for dessert. For grades 3-6. 2014By Rigby, Sylvia Karavis. 2000
By Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3