Books in Everyday Science Academy series

Gym is just gym, there’s no science involved, right? That goes on somewhere else. Wrong! Science is at work when you balance on a beam, whack a baseball, sprint across a field, or slam dunk a basketball. Discover how you couldn’t move a muscle without science.

Find out how clouds and fog are formed and how they are alike and different. Additional features to aid comprehension include colorful images, informational diagrams, hands-on activities, detailed captions and callouts, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author.

This new series reinforces the concept that amazing science is all around us, every day, in all aspects of our lives. Each title looks at how things work and why they are the way they are. Examples from everyday life are used to explain scientific concepts. Age 10-14.

Find out how the movement of Earth causes the first day of summer and the first day of winter. Additional features to aid comprehension include colorful images, informational diagrams, hands-on activities, detailed captions and callouts, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author.

An introduction to some of the characteristics of the four seasons.

Parker, Steve

A simple introduction to various kinds of plants and the basic concepts related to growing plants.

An introduction to light, various sources of light, and shadows.

Describes different kinds of materials and uses simple experiments to explain how their shape or state of being can be changed.

Explains just how energy, forces, magnetism, electricity, light and sound feature in our everyday lives. Find out all about energy: where we find it, which different forms it takes, how it's made - and how we'll be using energy in the future. Age 9+.

An overview of light, describing how it is formed and used and discussing properties associated with light, such as how we perceive it.

Describes what magnetism and magnetic fields are, how they work, and various ways that magnetism is used.