Synopsis: The Bear Scouts know smoking kills. Can they convince Brother Bear before he gets hooked?

Synopsis: Mrs. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to visit Arnold's uncle who is a forest firefighter and they find themselves in an actual forest fire.

Synopsis: In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

Synopsis: Thomas Edison was a genius inventor. As a young boy, he liked to do all kinds of experiments. As an adult, he invented many things, including the light bulb.

Synopsis: A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

Synopsis: At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to …

Synopsis: How are satellites launched into orbit? Does gravity affect plants? What causes the feeling of weightlessness? Janice VanCleave's Gravity includes 20 simple and fun experiments that allow you to discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about gravity, plus dozens of additional suggestions for developing your own science fair projects. Learn about gravity and speed with a simple experiment using marbles and a ruler; about…

Synopsis: Discusses the history, geography, people, and culture of the country called Little Venice by the first Spanish explorers.

Synopsis: Young readers will delight in interesting, fact-filled accounts of the lives of famous Americans. Full-color photographs highlight the easy-to-read volumes on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln, among others. Each book includes an index, bibliography, glossary.

Synopsis: Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.

Synopsis: Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.

Synopsis: Children are given the sense of being witnesses to history-in-the-making in this series that explores important events in United States history. Includes an index.

Synopsis: First BooksThis highly praised series of books has been in print since the 1950s (launched originally by Franklin Watts himself). Today's First Books provide engaging, in-depth introductions to subjects in all areas of the middle-grade curriculum, including science, social studies, and the arts. Illustrated with color and historical photography and art, each First Book is chaptered, includes an index, a "For Further Reading" list and, where…

Synopsis: b>A True Book-Disasters The horror! The humanity! The heroes! Read these true, heartstopping tales about unimaginable devastation wrought by nature and humans, and the amazing spirit of the people who united in recovery in the aftermath of nuclear explosions, worldwide diseases, earthquakes and hurricanes, and terrorist attacks.