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Extreme 3-D Your Body!
Shar Levine, Don Roff
Hardcover (Silver Dolphin Books, Aug. 29, 2005)Provides information on the human body and allows readers to examine photographs of the body through 3-D glasses.
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Goliath Bird-Eating Spiders and Other Extreme Bugs
Deirdre A. Prischmann
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2008)A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio Describes the world of arthropods, including characteristics, life cycles, and defenses.
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Smoke Jumpers
Sarah Tieck
Library Binding (Big Buddy Books, Aug. 1, 2011)Introduces the gear required to perform the dangerous job and examines how the position has changed over time.
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Flesh-Eating Machines: Maggots in the Food Chain
June Preszler
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2008)A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio Describes the world of maggots, including characteristics, life cycle, and their role in the food chain.
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Surviving Death Valley: Desert Adaptation
Pamela Jain Dell
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2008)A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio Describes adaptations that occur in the desert environment, including general adaptations and examples.
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Extreme Earth: Waterfalls
Patricia Corrigan, Geoffrey H Nash
Hardcover (Chelsea House Publications, March 19, 2007)From Venezuela's Angel Falls, Earth's highest, to Victoria Falls, the smoke that thunders, here is an outstanding survey of the world's top 10 waterfalls. Detailing locations, sources, size, volume, and appearance, Waterfalls in addition includes material about each waterfall's geologic makeup, history, local climate, and people. Author Patricia Corrigan includes intriguing facts on other notable waterfalls, such as California's 400-foot Whiskeytown Falls, only discovered in 2005.
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Monsters of the Deep: Deep Sea Adaptation
Kelly Regan Barnhill
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2008)A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio Describes adaptations that occur in the deep sea environment, including general adaptations and examples.
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Storm Chasers
Sarah Tieck
Library Binding (Big Buddy Books, Aug. 1, 2011)Provides information and advice for budding meteorolgists who specialize in following severe storms on the requirements and duties of the job, its history, and how to prepare for tracking the most extreme weather.
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Motocross Racing
Mandy R. Marx
Paperback (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2006)Discusses the sport of motocross racing, including the equipment used, safety, and competitions.
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Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals
Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone, Elaine Humphrey, Don Roff
Hardcover (Silver Dolphin Books, April 18, 2006)How can something so tiny be so … nasty? That’s the question that comes to mind with Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals. Strange creatures of all shapes and sizes, living everywhere from the backyard to just under the fingernails, can be seen up close — magnified 10,000 times — in nearly 100 3-D photographs. The book includes special glasses with colorful plastic frames for viewing these miniature monsters, each of which gets its own profile with fun facts.
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