Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

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Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

A little duckling enjoys a spring rain shower.

What do you see when it rains?

Australia is a large and diverse nation.

With upbeat text and playful illustrations, readers can follow along as a class meets a firefighter and learns what firefighters do.

What can you do in the winter?

What does it mean to forecast the weather?

Wind is moving air.

Being forced from home is something no one wants to experience.

¿Sabías que la luz del sol que calienta tu piel en un día soleado se puede utilizar para producir energía?

Fossil fuels heat our homes.

Quietly, without most people noticing, the population of giraffes in the wild has decreased by nearly 40 percent since 1985.

Palabras e ilustraciones divertidas muestran cómo cambian las hojas durante las estaciones.

Rocks can be made of many different minerals.

A young boy ventures out after a snowstorm to look at the snow.

When a tornado's funnel-shaped cloud touches the ground, extreme winds destroy everything in its path.

A pilot flies over, under, in, out, and through the clouds in this brightly illustrated title.

It's a sunny fall day in Maya's neighborhood, and all her neighbors are busy with outdoor activities, from releasing some young butterflies to organizing a birthday scavenger hunt.

Soil can be found almost everywhere on Earth.

What do you like best about summer?

Crafty readers will delight in celebrating Earth Day by making age-appropriate, Earth-themed projects from odds and ends they already have!

Explore the effects of wind on leaves, sailboats, umbrellas, and kites.

Forests create the air we need to breathe.

Surfer Bethany Hamilton paddled out into the ocean for a early morning session with friends.

Around the world, busy roads and highways block animal paths.

What steps can you take to help the environment?

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What can you engineer from recycled materials?

Fun illustrations and informative text show readers how the weather can change in fall.

Science stars can transform recycled materials into science-themed crafts.

Earthquakes happen when big plates of earth slide past one another.

Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals.

La Tierra está compuesta en casi un 70 % por agua.

Earth has a trash problem.

Rising temperatures around the globe put animals at risk.

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Igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks make up the three main types of rocks.

It's a sunny fall day in Maya's neighborhood, and all her neighbors are busy with outdoor activities, from releasing some young butterflies to organizing a birthday scavenger hunt.

Being forced from home is something no one wants to experience.

Exhaust from cars and factories pollutes Earth's air more each day.

Climate change is hurting the planet.

In just a few seconds, a spark can turn a forest into a rapidly spreading inferno of intense heat and suffocating smoke.

In the borderlands between the United States and Mexico, America's largest cat-the jaguar-is fighting to regain its kingdom.

Plip!

Fun text and charming illustrations show how leaves grow and change throughout the seasons.

Snow swoops and swirls.

Have you ever tried to come up with ways to solve a problem in your community?

Crafty readers will delight in celebrating Earth Day by making age-appropriate, Earth-themed projects from odds and ends they already have!

Animal lovers will adore these hands-on projects, which use recycled materials to make animal-themed crafts.