Books with author Mark Nelson

Good listening skills help make communicating with others a better experience. Being quiet when another person is talking allows them to pass on information more easily. It implies that the listener respects the speaker. Nodding and smiling when someone speaks can help them know they are being listened to, as well. Readers will learn about these skills and more while navigating relatable situations. Vivid photographs will enhance the different ways listening skills are important and how to use them. Through achievable content and everyday settings, readers will learn how to become better listeners.

If you watch the majestic American bald eagle fly above the treetops, its easy to see why it stands for freedom and strength in the United States. As the national emblem, its seen on government buildings and documents, and is often used to symbolize national pride. Readers learn how the American bald eagle came to be the national bird of the United States and the many ways its image is used. Full-color photographs of the American bald eagle highlight its fierce beauty. A timeline guides readers through its creation as a national symbol.

Cells are the building blocks of life. It's amazing to think that life begins with a single cell. Readers will learn how cells multiply, differentiate, and construct the various organisms on Earth. They'll learn the difference between human, plant, and bacteria cells, and the structures within each that help it function. Remarkable photographs bring the text to life and further support key biology concepts.

Horses are a popular pet and are often members of a family for many years. Theyre commonly trained for horse shows and the excitement of racing. But even well-trained show ponies can be willful sometimes! Through jokes and wordplay, readers learn the sillier aspects of horse ownership and many fabulous funnies they can share with their friends. Colorful images and fun facts will encourage readers to saddle up and keep reading.

Bee stings arent a laughing matterbut its easy to giggle at other mis-bee-havior! Readers will buzz right through more than two dozen jokes and puns about beesand these humdingers will make them ask for more! Colorful, funny illustrations of bees enhance the fun while silly facts about bees will encourage readers to seek out even more cool science information they can share with their friends.

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.