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3) Mining
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The America at Work series introduces young children to the people, machines and environmental concerns involved in two leading resource-based industries. Fishing explains how fish farmers in Maine raise salmon and halibut, and traces the fascinating life journey of a wild salmon in Alaska. In Mining, kids explore an underground mine, a surface coal mine and an oil drilling site. Combining fact and fiction with colorful illustrations, these stories...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Provides instructions for playing a variety of outdoor and indoor games, including activities for one or two, information on making equipment, advice on water safety and water games, and plans for a "warm weather olympics" competition.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A treasury of outdoor-themed games and activities for each season offers scientific and historical trivia to accompany instructions for such ideas as building a sundial, making a kite, playing Spud, and observing the sky at night.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Discusses rewilding, detailing how it is necessary to restore habitats to their natural state to support native species, and provides examples from around the world where endangered animals have been rehabilitated and returned to their natural environments.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human populations, from the Black Death in medieval Europe to such modern diseases as AIDS and West Nile virues, as well as the efforts to stop the spread of these diseases.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Offers ideas for children on how to celebrate the millennium, takes a look at life in 1000 A.D. and 3000 A.D.,and includes a timeline that provides information about interesting people, inventions, and events from the last two thousand years.
