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Books in A Finding-Out Book series

  • Things Outdoors

    Eliot Humberstone

    Paperback (Usborne Pub Ltd, June 1, 1981)
    Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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  • Apples: A Bushel of Fun & Facts

    Bernice Kohn Hunt

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 1976)
    Describes the history, cultivation, and different varieties of the apple and includes recipes and myths and legends associated with this fruit
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  • Everyday Things

    E D C Publishing

    Hardcover (Usborne Pub Ltd, June 1, 1981)
    Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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  • The New Americans: Vietnamese Boat People

    James Haskins

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Nov. 1, 1980)
    Discusses the mass exodus from Vietnam as a result of the war and describes the lives of the Vietnamese who found refuge in the United States.
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  • Lands Adrift: The Story of Continental Drift

    Malcolm E. Weiss, Albert Michini

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Oct. 1, 1975)
    Introduces the theory of continental drift and discusses the various clues scientists have found to support it.
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  • Deadly creatures of the sea

    Walter L Harter

    Paperback (Parents' Magazine Press, March 15, 1977)
    Discusses nine deadly ocean creatures often found close to the shore.
  • How Heredity Works; Why Living Things Are As They Are.

    Jeanne Bendick

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 1975)
    Accounts for the different characteristics of animals, plants, and people by providing a simple explanation of the principles of inheritance and the influence of the environment upon living things
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  • Save It! Keep It! Use It Again!: A Book About Conservation and Recycling

    R. J. Lefkowitz, John Emil Johnson

    Library Binding (Crown Pub, Sept. 1, 1977)
    Carefully differentiating between renewable resources and those that cannot be replaced, the author points to the menace of instant trash, and suggests ways in which the reader can save and reuse materials
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  • Puerto Rico: Island of Contrasts.

    Geraldo Rivera, William Negron

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 1973)
    Discusses the history, people, and culture of this island commonwealth and the life-style and problems of the Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the mainland in search of jobs.
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  • Forces in the Earth: A Book About Gravity and Magnetism

    R. J. Lefkowitz

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Oct. 1, 1976)
    Defines gravity and magnetism and how they function.
  • 2010: living in the future

    Geoffrey Hoyle

    Hardcover (Parents' Magazine Press, March 15, 1974)
    Describes one idea of the streamlined, automated world of 2010 where beds are built into the floor, school is attended by vision phone, and groceries and dinner are ordered and delivered by computer.
  • Those mysterious UFOs: The story of unidentified flying objects

    David C Knight

    Hardcover (Parents' Magazine Press, March 15, 1975)
    Discusses sightings of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects and possible explanations of these phenomena.