Books with author Ruth Owen

Young marksmen will develop their shooting skills after setting their sights on this inventive guide. Boys will learn how to make an arsenal of weapons including everything from a marshmallow shooter to a mini crossbow. With an emphasis on safety and responsible shooting, this book serves as a well-balanced introduction to marksmanship as well as to following instructions and decoding procedural language.

Longer than a school bus and weighing more than 22 elephants, Megalodon was a truly enormous and powerful prehistoric predator. This ancient ancestor of today's most feared ocean predator, the shark, would have hunted whales and been able to snap up a great white shark as a snack! In this book, readers get to dive into the world of a prehistoric ocean giant and find out how scientists have used fossils and studies of modern-day sharks to look back millions of years and piece together the story of Megalodon.

A robot army marches through a city destroyed by aliens. A famous movie star morphs into a hideous fantasy creature. And a cute pink triceratops sets off on a big adventure with a blue T. rex. Creating animations and incredible visual effects is all in a day's work for a CGI (computer-generated imagery) artist. Readers will discover how CGI artists use creativity, computer skills, and the latest technology to produce the characters, landscapes, and effects we love to see in movies and TV shows. Told in a lively narrative style, this book includes firsthand accounts of how CGI effects are created, entertaining anecdotes, cool facts, and fascinating behind-the-scenes images. Readers will also get the chance to try their hand at being a CGI artist with fun projects and activities.

Giraffes eat up to 75 pounds of food a day, and have multiple methods of communicating with one another such as whistling, hissing, and mooing. The preeminent cartoon scientist Dr. Bob and his helpful pooch Hank explore the wonderful world of these tall creatures in this engaging volume. Readers will learn about the family life of giraffes and their friendly nature. An extensive glossary will help readers along as they learn the long and short of these leggy mammals.

In this book, readers will discover all about the basic structure of plants and the jobs that roots, stems, leaves, and flowers do. Packed with information about wild and garden plants, this title gets readers investigating how plants take in water, make food with their leaves, and produce seeds. Students will even get to go on scavenger hunts to find out all about leaves, tree bark, and colorful flower petals.

Imagine working in a laboratory that’s 200 miles above Earth. You perform experiments on microbes, radiation, new types of metals, and even your own body. You travel to work on a spacecraft, work alongside robots, and drink your own recycled urine! It’s all in a day’s work for an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Readers will discover how work in science and engineering is carried out every day by astronauts on the ISS. Told in a lively narrative style, this book includes firsthand accounts of astronauts’ lives, entertaining anecdotes, cool facts, and fascinating behind-the-scenes images. Readers will also get the chance to try their hand at space science projects.