Mary Kay Carson

"Presents information about Venus, including fast facts, history, and technology used to study the planet"--Provided by publisher.

"Presents information about Mars, including fast facts, history, and technology used to study the planet"--Provided by publisher.

"Presents information about Neptune, including fast facts, history, and technology used to study the planet"--Provided by publisher.

"Presents information about the sun, including fast facts, history, and technology used to study it"--Provided by publisher.

"Presents information about Uranus, including fast facts, history, and technology used to study the planet"--Provided by publisher.

"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano--named New Horizons--on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet"--

Long before its establishment as a national park in 1872, Yellowstone was home to the gray wolf, as well as other large predators. But the relationship between human and wolf has always been a tense and complicated one. Predator control programs were developed and, by the mid-1900s, wolves had almost been entirely eliminated from the region and even the lower United States. The removal of even one strand of an ecosystem's complex web can have a ripple...

From the everyday phenomena of wind and clouds to the awesome, destructive power of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes, children can explore weather in detail with this fascinating science activity book. Throughout the text instructions for building weather-measuring tools barometers, psychrometers, anemometers, wind vanes, rain gauges, and thermometers allow the reader to assemble them into a working weather station. More than 40 weather projects...

Ghost stories from Cheyenne, Wyoming have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of the Magic City of the Plains comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Visit the Plains Hotel to catch a glimpse of the spirits who checked in but never checked out. Or look for the ghosts of cowboys at the town's Wrangler Store. Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations,...

In this stellar activity book, kids delve into the rich history of space exploration, where telescopes, satellites, probes, Landers, and human missions lead to amazing discoveries. Updated to include the recent discovery of Eris which, along with Pluto, has been newly classified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, this cosmic adventure challenges kids to explore the planets and other celestial bodies for themselves through activities...