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  • Immigration in America

    Asylum, Borders, and Conflicts

    by Danielle Smith-Llera ...
    Series series Informed!
    Immigration is a hot topic in the United States. What kind of immigration should be allowed? How should immigrants who have come into the United States illegally be treated? What about the DREAMers? Refugees seeking asylum? Will building a border wall keep out illegal immigrants and stop the flow of drugs into the U.S.? Might improving technology offer a better answer? Students will learn about ... Read more

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  • Hate Crime in America

    From Prejudice to Violence

    by Danielle Smith-Llera ...
    Series series Informed!
    Hate crime in the United States is on the rise. The FBI has reported that hate crimes rose by 17 percent in 2017, increasing for the third straight year, and the trend continued into 2018 and 2019. The crimes are most commonly motivated by hatred related to race, ethnicity, or country of origin. Many crimes are also motivated by bias against sexual orientation or gender identity. Students will ... Read more

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  • You Are Eating Plastic Every Day

    What's in Our Food?

    by Danielle Smith-Llera ...
    Series series Informed!
    Scientists have recently started studying plastic pollution and our food supply. And, make no mistake, you are eating microscopic pieces of plastic everyday. What does it mean for our health? And what can you do about it? Students will get practical tips on how they can get involved and become part of the solution. ... Read more

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  • 101 Amazing Facts About Insects

    ...and other arthropods

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Did you know that the combined weight of all the insects in the world is twelve times greater than the weight of the entire human population? Or that it takes the pollen from around two million flowers to make just one pound of honey? This fantastic quick-read eBook features 101 amazing facts split into categories such as amazing arthropods, ants, beetles, spiders and many more. So if you want to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Racial Profiling

    Everyday Inequality

    by Alison Marie Behnke ...
    In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions—such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and schools—routinely use race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of an offense.The high-profile deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers have brought renewed national attention to racial ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trash Vortex

    How Plastic Pollution Is Choking the World's Oceans

    by Danielle Smith-Llera ...
    Series series Captured Science History
    Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Case of Vanishing Honeybees

    A Scientific Mystery

    by Sandra Markle ...
    Series series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries
    Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year . . . and no one knows why. Is a fungus killing them? Could a poor diet be the cause? What about changes to bees' natural habitat? In this real ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolution of Agricultural Technology

    by Britannica Educational Publishing ...
    Series series Evolving Technology
    This book chronicles how since the Neolithic era of the Stone Age, agricultural tools evolved from pointed digging sticks to electron microscopes. Weeds evolved into wheat, carrots, and more as humans selected and designed foods. People farmed sustainably since the last Ice Age with fire and fish traps, and more recently, agriculture has evolved to produce more for a growing worldwide population. ... Read more

    $29.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sasol First Field Guide to Aloes of Southern Africa

    by Gideon Smith ...
    Series series Sasol First Field Guide
    Sasol First Field Guide to Aloes of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the aloes of the region. Full-colour photographs , distribution maps and easy-to-read text will help the budding naturalist to identify the more common aloes found in southern African gardens and landscapes, discover where they occur, and learn about their unique features. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Let's Eat

    Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

    by Kimberley Veness ...
    Series Book 10 - Orca Footprints
    All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story.Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Deep Roots

    How Trees Sustain Our Planet

    by Nikki Tate ...
    Series Book 8 - Orca Footprints
    Most of us see trees every day, and too often we take them for granted.Trees provide us with everything from food, fuel and shelter to oxygen and filtered water. Deep Roots celebrates the central role trees play in our lives, no matter where we live. Each chapter in Deep Roots focuses on a basic element—water, air, fire and earth—and explores the many ways in which we need trees to keep our planet ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • If Bees Disappeared

    by Lily Williams ...
    Illustrated by Lily Williams ...
    Series Book 1 - If Animals Disappeared
    What would happen if bees disappeared? Find out in this fourth book from Lily Williams in the award-winning If Animals Disappeared Series that imagines the consequences of a world without bees.The rolling hills and lush climate of Kent, England are home to many creatures.These creatures are fluffy, sneaky, spikey, and ... small, like the bee.Though bees are small, their importance is BIG. Today ... Read more

    $11.99 USD