Explore the wonders of the sun, from the constant nuclear explosions at its core to the sea of boiling gases that forms its surface. --Publisher

Introduces the history, geography, people, and customs of the Asian nation of India.

Join Jack and Annie and find the facts behind the fiction on polar bears and the Arctic.

Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening in Huntsville. For the citizens of that city, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. In an engaging celebration of this lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history, author Hester Bass and illustrator E. B. Lewis show children...

Rhyming text and illustrations present the sights of Washington, D.C., from A to Z.

Bel and her cousin, Dylan, explore blizzards, learning how they form and where they happen.

Offers information, advice, and key facts on how to provide the best possible care for hamsters.

When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope more than eleven hundred feet long and just three inches wide, hanging one hundred and sixty feet above the raging waters, people came from everywhere. Some people came to watch him cross. Some people came to watch him fall. Some people thought he wouldn't show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then...