Books in Fact or Fiction series

Time Travel: Is Visiting the Past and Future Possible? Readers will examine the history of time travel, Project Pegasus, famous time travel literature, time slippage, the theory of relativity and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Cryptozoology: Could Unexplained Creatures Be Real? Readers will examine the history of Cryptozoology, Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Artificial Intelligence: Can Computers Take Over? Readers will examine the history of artificial intelligence, leading scientists in the field, the Three Laws of robots, the singularity, Sophia, and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

From Death Valley to jungle temples where humans were sacrificed, from a giant lake under the ice to pirate treasure that nobody can reach. There are some weird places in the world. Find out all about them; get the facts. Got that? Then read "The Lost Tribe", a story about what might have happened to a race of tiny humans. Then use the Word Check to make sure you sound like an expert on the weirdest parts of the world.

Great Journeys looks at some of the greatest journeys ever made - starting with human beings' first great journey 150,000 years ago: leaving Africa. Find out who first discovered America, who reached the South Pole first (and who came second!). Then find out about the great journey to reach the Moon. The fiction story 'The Big Sleep' tells of a man who spends a hundred years asleep in space, on the greatest journey ever.<br /><br />The Trailblazers series has been written for older children and young adults with a reading age of 5-8. The books are suitable for general reading or as part of a more structured reading program. Each book is on a strong, popular topic, with a colorful, attractive layout. <br /><br />Each book has a non-fiction and a fiction section. The fiction story appears in two formats - one with simple texts for poor readers; the facing pages contain an illustrated "speech bubble" version of the same story, for those who are just starting to learn to read. These two levels of entry give access points for children and young adults with different reading ages. The vocabulary of each book is carefully limited, with simple sentences to reinforce reading skills, which make the books suitable for even the poorest readers.<br />

Millions of years ago, a giant meteorite killed all the dinosaurs. Find out how! Will humans all be killed in the same way? Find out what we can do. Is there life on the planet Mars? Scientists think maybe the answer is yes. Find out why. Get the facts. Got that? Then read a scary story about what might happen: "Doom from Space". Finally use the Word Check to make sure you know your comets from your asteroids!

What is a disaster? Is being ill a disaster? Or 75 million people dying in the Black Death? That sounds like a disaster! Find out what kinds of things make disasters happen. Oh, and if disasters are bad - what about mega-disasters? They're a lot worse. Find out here. Then read the story The Eruption. Who can you trust when a volcano erupts near you? This is one of a series on books on popular non-fiction topics. As with other books in the series, a full colour non-fiction section is followed by a fiction story based upon the topic. The story appears in two formats: one with simple texts for poor or reluctant readers; the facing pages contain an illustrated "speech bubble" version for those who are just starting to read.

From Death Valley to jungle temples where humans were sacrificed, from a giant lake under the ice to pirate treasure that nobody can reach. There are some weird places in the world. Find out all about them; get the facts. Got that? Then read "The Lost Tribe", a story about what might have happened to a race of tiny humans. Then use the Word Check to make sure you sound like an expert on the weirdest parts of the world.

The sea is a dangerous place. There's sharks of course, but the real dangers are much smaller. Like a killer octopus the size of a golf ball. And it's not just animals: there are pirates, and giant waves that can break boats in two! Get the facts. Got that? Then read "Shark Attack!" -- a great diving sotry about what to do when a shark is after you and it can REALLY smell your blood! Finally, use the Word Check to make sure you know your tentacles from your tsunami.