Ellen Jackson
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
60 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The universe is rapidly expanding. Of that much scientists are certain. But how fast? And with what implications regarding the fate of the universe? Ellen Jackson and Nic Bishop follow Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team to Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, where they will study space phenomena and look for supernovae, dying stars that explode with the power of billions of hydrogen bombs. Dr. Fillippenko looks for black holes--areas...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Simple, rhyming text introduces eleven animals and the surprising tools they use, including an octopus that hides in a coconut, a dolphin that protects its nose with a sponge, and a deer that bedecks its antlers with heaping piles of mud and grass. Secondary text offers further information about these crafty creatures.
6) Cinder Edna
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.
8) Earth Mother
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations with advice on how to make the world more perfect.
11) Scatterbrain Sam
Author
Publisher
Whispering Coyote
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
A Millbrook Press library ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, and the United States.
16) The Chefs Collaborative cookbook: local, sustainable, delicious recipes from America's great chefs
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
298 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This cookbook celebrates The Chefs Collaborative's work by featuring more than 115 original, delicious recipes from some of America's best chefs as well as providing practical, relevant information from experts in the sustainable food community on how concepts like sustainable, local, organic, and clean translate into cooking and eating at home"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
57 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigates how scientists, particularly Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, use twenty-first century technology to investigate whether life exists on other planets.
