Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

Have you ever wondered what causes earthquakes or tsunamis?

Have you ever wondered what determines your hair color, eye color, or height?

Have you ever wondered how the foods you eat affect your body?

Have you ever wondered what El Nino was?

Wonder about wolves?

Did you know that hurricanes are storms that form over the ocean?

Have you ever seen the destruction of a tornado's path?

Readers Advance uses a series of full-color nonfiction science readers designed to address the challenges of reading in a content area.

Have you ever wondered what plant and animal life can survive in a desert?

Have you ever wondered what lurks in the rain forest?

Unlock the mysteries of planet Earth!

Have you ever wondered what causes a rainbow or how a prism works?

Have you ever been shocked by touching a doorknob?

You may know that a magnet has a north and south pole, but do you know how magnets were discovered?

Have you ever wondered how gravity works?

Some people think that the sound of a honeybee is frightening, but honeybees are actually very helpful!

Have you ever seen a bird so small that you weren't sure that it was a bird?

What does a whooping crane looks like?

Have you ever wondered how dinosaurs lived long ago?

Whales are very interesting animals.

Multicultural, Nondenominational, Nonsectarian Endorsed by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Religious Leaders "e;God was sad that the Prince and Princess had refused to see the answers to their prayers.

When the Pilgrims landed near Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 they were unprepared for the challenges they would face.

Match your wits against a band of pirates on the high seas and try to defeat them-or join them!

Rick has a week to complete a big homework assignment but keeps putting it off in favor of other, more enjoyable activities.

When he hears a monster singing songs under his bed, Jake gets his big brother Hal to help him get rid of it.

Jake tells his friend Hank that he's learning to bake, but Hank misunderstands and begins a chain of misinformation that spreads throughout school.

Hop, hop, hop!

This girl is all set to camp out.

Trouble arises between a brother and sister because she always wins the games they play, but then she discovers that she does not have to brag or win all the time.

Everyone seems to know what they want to be for Career Day at school-that is, everyone except Mallory.

¿De dónde viene la electricidad?

In the years between WWI and WWII, young Henryk Goldszmidt dreamed of creating a better world for children.

After finally winning the decade-long war against the Trojans, Odysseus, captain of the Greek Army, only has to guide his men back home, across the sea.

Beowulf is a brave and mighty warrior, known to have the strength of thirty men.

King Arthur rules his realm from the shining castle of Camelot.

Messy Tess cleans up her room to please Mom and Dad.

Follow the incredible journey of a small Torah scroll from a Dutch rabbi to a Bar Mitzvah boy during the Holocaust and finally to Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who died on space shuttle Columbia.

Today Jay is getting his first pet.

George is always bragging.

Spunky, eight-year-old Mallory McDonald is very unhappy when her parents decide to get her older brother Max a dog.

Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth because she "e;was to travel up an' down this land.

As a young man growing up in Greenland, Leif Ericsson had heard stories about a land to the west across the Atlantic Ocean.

During the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive.

It's fiesta time!

Staring out the car window at the road flashing by, a young girl explains to her new baby brother what happens When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa: you get to play hide and seek with Grandma in the summer and carve pumpkins with her in the fall.

The first big snow of the winter has finally arrived.

Ready.

Loudmouth George has just started playing the coronet and he's awful!

Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation)-she has to go back to school.

Eleven-year-old Johnny Mickley longed to be a hero and have some part in helping America gain its independence.