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  • The Fire of Stars

    The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of

    by Kirsten W. Larson ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    A poetic picture book celebrating the life and scientific discoveries of the groundbreaking astronomer Cecilia Payne!Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne was the first person to discover what burns at the heart of stars. But she didn't start out as the groundbreaking scientist she would eventually become. She started out as a girl full of curiosity, hoping one day to unlock the mysteries of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Making More

    How Life Begins

    by Katherine Roy ...
    "Highly recommended for nonfiction and even parenting collections, where it will fly off the shelf with science-loving kids and neutralize any adult melodrama around talking to kids about sex."—School Library Journal, starred reviewA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year<... ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Chasing Eruptions

    How Volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft Helped Save 60,000 Lives-But Lost Their Own

    by Curtis Manley ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    The gripping story of volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, perfect for armchair adventurers who loved The Mona Lisa Vanishes and Becoming Muhammad Ali. Complete with stunning illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Katherine Roy, and extensive backmatter for school and at-home conversations.This beautiful biography in verse is about two French scientists who changed what we know about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Sea Without a Shore

    Life in the Sargasso

    by Barb Rosenstock ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    A single piece of seaweed buoys a fascinating ecosystem in this nonfiction picture book from award-winning creators Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy.From bryozoans and snails to shrimps, eels, swordfish, and whales, the Sargasso Sea provides a home to countless types of marine life, thanks to the prevalence of macroalgae called sargassum. Following a single blade of this extraordinary seaweed as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Otis and Will Discover the Deep

    The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere

    by Barb Rosenstock ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.They knew dozens of things might go wrong. A tiny leak could shoot pressurized water straight through the men like bullets! A single ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Neighborhood Sharks

    Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

    by Katherine Roy ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge!A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Be an Elephant

    by Katherine Roy ...
    The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary to keep up, from projecting her voice across a 10-octave range to using the 100,000 muscles in her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Red Rover

    Curiosity on Mars

    by Richard Ho ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    Red Rover is a gorgeously illustrated tale that explores the vast, inhospitable landscape of Mars and the adventures of the little rover that calls the planet its home.Mars has a visitor.It likes to roam...observe...measure...and collect.It explores the red landscape—crossing plains, climbing hills,and tracing the bottoms ofcraters—in search of waterand life.It is not the first to ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Buried Beneath Us

    Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas

    by Anthony Aveni ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Roy ...
    A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America.You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    by Jeannie Meekins ...
    Series Book 122 - 15-Minute Books
    TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.But what actually is a black hole and what do they do ... Read more

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  • 14 Fun Facts About Stars: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #131

    by Jeannie Meekins ...
    Series Book 131 - 15-Minute Books
    We see stars in the night sky as pretty, twinkling objects, but what exactly are they?A lot of the information we find out about stars, helps us understand other objects; pulsars, quasars, galaxies – even the origin of our universe. Here are some fun facts about stars.Do stars twinkle?What are stars made of?Do we know more about the inside of stars or the inside of Earth?Do stars have a life cycle ... Read more

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  • 14 Fun Facts About the Sun: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #133

    by Jeannie Meekins ...
    Series Book 133 - 15-Minute Books
    Our sun is an average star in our galaxy. It is a sphere of burning gas that provides light and heat. It makes our plants grow and allows them to turn carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen.If our sun were to shine a little less or a little more brightly, life as we knew it would not exist. A drop of less than 2% of the sun's energy output would turn Earth into an ice-covered planet.So how much do ... Read more

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