"What's it like to fight in a joust? Can a woman become a knight? Using the nonfiction genre 'explanation,' this title explores the life of a knight from weapons to armor to castle life."
Describes life in the West from the 1850s to 1900 and presents the lives of such famous people of the wild West as Jesse James, Nellie Cashman, Joshua Norton, and Buffalo Bill.
Presents a tour of the early Arab world, discussing facts about climate, landscape, religion, social classes, transportation, clothing, food, customs, culture, hygiene, medicine, and language.
Describes the culture and society of the Aboriginal Australians, including their dwellings, occupations, diet, clothes, education, religion, recreational activities, traditions, and celebrations.
Provides a definition of crystals and describes the six basic categories of crystalline shapes, along with a discussion of how crystals grow, how they break up, and their many everyday uses.
Examines the three states of matter--solid, liquid, and gas--and discusses how matter can change its state, mixtures, and substances such as tar whose exact nature is hard to define.
Describes the events surrounding the discovery of gold in California, the huge migration it brought to the area, and the lifestyles of miners and mining towns.
Explains why some animals migrate, describes how monarch migration was first studied, and discusses how these butterflies make the long journey and what they do when they reach their wintering grounds
Uses the examples of fighter jets to discuss matter and its properties, including states, atoms and their components, elements, molecules, and compounds.
In this book readers will learn how the Maasai people--who live in the grasslands in eastern Africa--survive harsh, dry conditions as well as about their customs and ceremonies, and how the women make
Introduces sedimentary rocks, discussing their characteristics; types; the rock cycle; how and where they are formed; how they are classified, identified, and used; and landforms that are composed of
Introduces igneous rocks, discussing their characteristics; types; the rock cycle; how they are formed, classified, identified, and used; and landforms that are composed of them.
