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Have you ever thought about what happens to your trash every week? And the big trucks you see on trash day? Read more about garbage trucks and their important job! Carefully leveled text teaches young readers about this machine, with age-appropriate critical thinking questions and fresh photos.

"Burgeoning fashionistas and young scientists alike will find plenty of fun facts in this clever compendium." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksDid you know that the cotton for your jeans was picked from a bush? Where did your soccer uniform, your rain boots, and your fleece jacket come from? And what does recycling plastic bottles have to do with anything? Visit farms, forests, and factories all over the world to find out how everything you wear has a story behind it. Back matter includes an author's note, an illustrator's note, a bibliography, and an index.

From the factory to the road, browse through more than 170 cool cars - from hatchbacks to hybrids - in Pocket Genius: Cars. Trace the history of the automobile from early vintage cars to modern concept cars, limousines to coupes, and minivans to sports cars in this compact-size reference guide perfect for children ages 8-12.Redesigned in paperback, DK's best-selling Pocket Genius series is now available in an engaging compact and economical format that is ideal for both browsing and quick reference for use in school and at home. Catalog entries packed with facts provide at-a-glance information, while locator icons offer immediately recognizable references to aid navigation and understanding, and fact files round off the book with fun facts such as record breakers and timelines. Each pocket-size encyclopedia is filled with facts on subjects ranging from animals to history, cars to dogs, and Earth to space and combines a child-friendly layout with engaging photography and bite-size chunks of text that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant readers.

"Bot Builders, get ready to battle! The BattleBots: Official Guide has everything you need to know about the awesome, explosive, and destructive world of robo-battles! Learn about the coolest bots, the smartest builders, and the strongest teams in the history of BattleBots. From world records to behind-the-scenes exclusives, this guide is perfect for BattleBot fans everywhere."--"

Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford's humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry.

Alles, was man über künstliche Intelligenz und smarte Technologie wissen muss.Selbstfahrende Autos, Alexa, Siri, Tablets, Smartphones, sprechendes Spielzeug... Intelligente Maschinen sind im Anmarsch! Doch wie viel haben sie überhaupt mit Menschen gemeinsam? Dieses Buch erkundet, wie smarte Geräte funktionieren, wie sie unser Leben verändern und welche ethischen Fragen sie für unsere Gesellschaft aufwerfen.Hallo Roboter! zeigt, wie weitreichend künstliche Intelligenz unsere Welt schon heute beeinflusst. Die farbenfrohen Illustrationen bieten leicht erfassbare Erklärungen über die Erfindung, Entwicklung, Design und Herstellung verschiedener Geräte, die künstliche Intelligenz nutzen.

"[S]tudents clamoring for more books with STEAM experiments and fun facts would enjoy these two titles."―School Library Connection, review of STEAM Tales: Alice in Wonderland and STEAM Tales: Around the World in 80 Days "Each volume in the STEAM Tales series offers a famous title that has been adapted for younger readers and studded with informational features and engaging science activities that relate to the story in some way....This literary series will appeal to kids with far ranging curiosity about STEAM-related topics."―Booklist, review of STEAM Tales: Alice in Wonderland and STEAM Tales: Around the World in 80 Days Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities. Dorothy's adventure through Oz is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring mind. It's the ideal combination of enchanting story and stimulating science fun.

Look around to see what uses oil?cars, airplanes, boats, factories, and countless other machines. The world is dependent on oil as its main source of energy. Although oil is plentiful right now, the supply will eventually run out, and even worse, burning oil is very damaging to the environment. What alternatives can help us use less oil and how can we protect the environment? Read and find out!

Tom Sawyer is among the best-known, most-loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author's real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi River. Trace Mark Twain's life from 1835, when his birth was heralded by Halley's Comet, to 1910, when the comet returned upon his death, in this fascinating biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.

What goes up must come down. Everybody knows that. But what is it that pulls everything from rocks to rockets toward the center of the earth? It's gravity. Nobody can say exactly what it is, but gravity is there, pulling on everything, all the time. With the help of an adventurous scientist and his fun-loving dog, you can read and find out about this mysterious force.

Beckoning readers to explore the territory beneath Boston¿s streets, Joe McKendry explores a century-old world when Beantown designed and created the country¿s first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating narrative, you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand. Using pick and shovels to create new routes, yoüll discover how these workers burrowed deep below Boston Harbor, under Beacon Hill and the Old State House, and built the Longfellow Bridge to carry the trains over the Charles River to the center of Cambridge. Yoüll read lively first-hand accounts of the turn-of-the-century public¿s perception of the underground public transportation, including their fears (expressed fantastically through the gruesome image of a fanged and tentacled ¿subway microbe¿), and learn how the system served as a model for the rest of the country in its ability to relieve traffic, mitigate congestion (which was even more severe a hundred years ago than today) and get people anywhere they wanted to go for only a nickel.

Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping!Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented?Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.

You've seen your own blood, when you have a cut or a scrape. You can see the veins in your wrist, and you've seen the scab that forms as a cut heals. But do you know what blood does for you? Without blood, you couldn't play, or grow, or learn. That's because just about every part of your body needs blood, from your muscles to your bones to your brain. How does your body use blood? Read and find out! Ages 10 - 14

Find out all about the many kinds of webs spiders spin in this level 2 Let′s Read and Find Out. How do spiders spin such large webs? Spiders produce a unique silk that can stretch from wall to wall, or between the legs of a chair. In this book, featuring remarkably realistic artwork by S.D. Schindler, you will learn about the silk spiders produce, the webs they spin, and the prey they capture. You will even learn how to make a web of your own! Ages 5-9

This fun book in the shape of a motorcycle has wheels so little drivers can race them anywhere. The big, tough wheels actually grip, and the beautiful, full color photographs inside are captioned with names to make learning fun. Whether your little road-runners love school buses or sporty cars, hogs or 18-wheelers, there's a Wheelie book to take them speeding out of the store! Vroom, vroom, vroooooooooom!

Climb aboard a backhoe, watch as building is knocked over, and learn how a road is made. Take an up-close look at the wide variety of machines that are used on a building site. Looking at a variety of machines with a wide range of uses, the Machines at Work series explains how vehicles help people on farms, construction sites, and other busy places. Each of the books answers questions with bright, interesting photographs of machines in different situations to explain how they work and what they do. Complete with plenty of amazing facts on this popular subject, the Machines at Work series is sure to be a hit with young readers and machine enthusiasts. Vroom-vroom!

Do you use tools? Sure you do, anytime you eat with a spoon or drink with a straw or write with a pen! A French chef flipping crepes with her spatula; Salvadoran fishers mending nets with their marlinespikes; an American girl carving a jack-o'-lantern with a knife -- in every country of the world, people of all ages use tools to make their lives easier.

What if we could open up our planet and look inside? From its red-hot core to the highest mountain peak, come see Earth as you've never seen it before in a colorful introduction to the powerful forces shaping our home.

Don't jump!If you're on the space shuttle, that is. Astronauts never jump in space. They usually drink out of straws, and they lift tons of equipment as if it were light as air. Find out more in this information-packed voyage into space.