New Releases by Rebecca L. Johnson

Provides opportunities for students to develop and apply fundamental mathematical and scientific skills.

This series presents the diverse topics of the brain, body functions, fitness and nutrition, bones and muscles, fighting disease, and making healthy choices.

The student will learn to identify chemical changes and the signs that they have occurred. Introduces how to distinguish between physical and chemical changes, and the concept that chemical reactions involve changes in energy. Identifies factors that affect reaction rate. Explains the role of enzymes in chemical reactions. Describes the importance of chemical reactions in daily life.

Do you realize there are about 100 trillion cells in your body? That''s a lot of cells to manage! It''s a good thing they are organized into systems that all work together. This book takes you on a journey inside your body to see many types of cells skin cells, blood cells, muscle cells, and more magnified hundreds or thousands of times larger than their actual size. You''ll find out how groups of cells work together to keep your body running. Are you ready for this microquest?

Describes the physical characteristics and habitat of carnivorous plants, including pitcher plants, venus fly traps, and cobra lilies.

Overview of life and work of archaeologist Johan Reinhard, focusing on his discoveries of Inca mummies and antiquities.

Discusses the function of the muscular system and how it works, and explains how to keep muscles healthy and functioning properly.

An illustrated compendium of information on plants and their diverse therapeutic properties and benefits brings together folklore, scientific research, and medical theory to describe hundreds of plants and their origins.--

Learn what satellites do for us.

Explains how volcanoes form, why earthquakes happen, and what goes on deep inside the earth to make the continents move.

Offers information about nanotechnology, a new scientific field that involves moving individual atoms and molecules around to create things on an ultra-small scale.

Introduces the roles that light and sound waves play in everything from modern medicine to music.

Discusses the National Weather Service and its importance in keeping us safe by forecasting severe weather conditions.

Discusses the function of the muscular system and how it works, and explains how to keep muscles healthy and functioning properly.

Takes readers on a walk in a swamp, showing examples of how the animals and plants of wetlands are connected and dependent on each other and the wetland''s watery environment.

Takes readers on a journey into a river, showing examples of how the animals and plants are connected and dependent on each other and the river''s freshwater environment.

Takes readers on a walk at a sheltered bay, showing examples of how the animals and plants of estuaries are connected and dependent on each other and the estuary''s mix of fresh and salt water.

Takes readers on a journey into a lake, showing examples of how the animals and plants are connected and dependent on each other and on the lake''s freshwater environment.

Takes readers on a journey into the ocean, showing examples of how the animals and plants of the ocean are connected and dependent on each other and the ocean''s saltwater environment.

Provides opportunities for students to develop and apply fundamental mathematical and scientific skills.

A biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the daring, charismatic Antarctic explorer who fell short of his goal of crossing Antarctica, but accomplished a far greater feat by bringing every member of his crew back alive.

Readers take an imaginary trip inside the body to learn what makes each person unique. Learn about chromosomes and genes and watch them at work.

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Take a walk through the desert. This hot, dry biome of the southwest is full of life. How do plants and animals of the desert live? As you wander through the desert, discover how each and every plant and animal relies on the others to live and grow.