Explains different customs of dealing with death and remembering the dead, such as funerals, burials, cremation, mourning, wills, and memorials.

Takes the reader on a chilly journey and explains what happens in a penguin's world

"Follow a classroom of diverse kindergartners as they plant seeds in their garden, tend the growing plants, and harvest the vegetables. Clear, bright photographs show the plant life cycle"--

Over the past several decades, our world has been warming at a faster rate than ever before. Winters are shorter. Sea levels have risen. Territories of predators and prey have shifted. To survive in this new environment, animals everywhere have had to adapt, or face extinction. Complemented by Jamie Hogan's rich collage illustrations, A Warmer World offers young readers a clear-eyed look at the effects of climate change on animals around the world--...

Describes Megalodon, an extinct shark that was more than fifty feet long and could swallow an object the size of a small car.

Provides information about enormous reptiles who swam the seas during the dinosaur age

Describes the physical characteristics, known habits, and fossil sites of mammoths, prehistoric animals closely related to the elephant

Describes the eight events of the winter olympics and provides background material on the winter games

Discusses the native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D. and mysteriously disappeared in 1300 A.D. after constructing extensive dwellings in the cliffs of the steep canyon walls