Books with author Joy Frisch

Examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of Costa Rica.

Welcome to Brazil! See the Amazon River. Hear the music of Carnival. Take a trip to South America's largest country to learn about its animals, people and traditions.

Examines the topics of motion, force, gravity, and friction.

An ice age survivor, arctic shrews are tiny insect eaters that thrive in the cold. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and threats, bringing arctic shrews to life like never before.

Introduces the physical characteristics, life cycle, breeding, training, and care of retrievers. Includes instructions for an experiment which contrasts human sense of smell with that of dogs.

Introduces the physical characteristics, life cycle, breeding, training, and care of bulldogs. Includes instructions for an activity involving drawing.

Tiny, long toothed arctic squirrels roamed the earth during the ice age. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, behavior, and extinction, bringing sabertooth squirrels to life like never before.

Introduces temperature, how it is measured, its effects on earth, and such future concerns as global warming. Includes directions for making a thermometer.

Provides an introduction to the history and purpose of libraries.

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Ground sloths were enormous, ice age plant eaters with giant claws. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and extinction, bringing ground sloths to life like never before.

Explains what force and motion are and the various ways that objects can move faster or slower.