It’s Spring Break and the gang is presented with a mysterious new riddle that will challenge their mathematics skills and senses. What is the perplexing, suspended ring that oscillates? Jesse and her pals must work together to find out!
It’s a beautiful day in Deanville and the gang is presented with a new challenge. How will the kids solve this difficult new task? And how does a Greek mathematician play an important role in the solution? Think like an engineer and work alongside Jesse and pals to figure it out!
When Jesse stops by The Curiosity Shop she uncovers an old painting in a dusty antique steamer trunk. But what happens later that night when she is startled by a creepy eyeball? Find out how Professor Peach helps Jesse use art skills to uncover the mystery!
A summer trip to her grandparents’ house was going great until Jesse gets caught up in a mystery in the attic. When she encounters a pair of spooky green eyes during a lightning storm, Jesse sets out to use engineering skills to solve the Case of the Clicking Clock.
It’s a breezy new day and along with a tempest in a chocolate milk glass, Jesse’s presented with a messy new mystery when Dorky Dougy loses his lunch while spinning on the merry-go-round. The big question is, why did the ballistic barf fling outwardly, as Dougy spun? Learn all about these centrifugal and centripetal forces that make up the vomit vortex!
It’s springtime again in Deanville and everything is in full bloom—including some microscopic nuisances that put a damper on outdoor activities. What could it be? Help Jesse use science skills to figure it out!
During the Middle Ages, your position in life was based on birth. This position would follow you throughout your life. To make it easy for others to know your social class, rules about what you could wear—or not wear—were created. Such rules, called sumptuary laws, determined colors of clothing, types of fabric and trims, length of garments, types of sleeves, and types of furs. The laws also regulated shoe lengths and height, hat height, types of buttons, and even the number of buttons you could wear. People were to dress according to the class in which they were born. In this way, just by looking at someone, you could tell if they were important or not.
Roadway overpasses in Canada's Banff National Park allow bears and deer to safely cross roads, Readers also discover fish ladders and “salmon cannons” in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, rope swings for monkeys in China, and colorful crab bridges in Australia.
This book shows the importance of bat houses, bird houses, and butterfly shelters and how building these simple structures can save the lives of endangered species. Readers will also explore the importance of butterfly gardens and how they provide food and shelter for some of Earth’s most fragile and beautiful creatures.
Reptiles and amphibians need special help crossing roads. This book focuses on different approaches, from tiny turtle tunnels under railroad tracks in Japan, to salamander tunnels and turtle crossing guards in the U.S., to toad tunnels in the UK, and bucket brigades for frogs and toads in France.
Forest villages in France, England, the U.S. and Australia feature rope bridges and buckets of acorns for squirrels. Readers will meet some of the rescuers helping these little red squirrels survive.
Although some sharks are very scary and dangerous, most species are quiet creatures who pose no threat to humans at all. Readers will learn all about the many kinds of sharks, what they eat, where they live, and their importance to the ocean ecosystem in this fact-and-photo-packed look at one of nature’s top predators.
Spiders seem scary, but they are really quiet creatures who help humans by eating many insect pests. And it’s hard not to love nature’s best engineer as it builds elaborate web homes. Young readers will explore the world of spiders and their awesome abilities in this exciting and informative look at a creepy creature who really isn’t scary at all.
Even venomous snakes can be helpful to people and Planet Earth! Young readers will learn the truth about the many different kinds of snakes, how to tell which ones are truly dangerous and which ones just want to be left alone, and explore up close the unique bodies that help these reptiles survive.
There are so many ways to use math on a trip! From telling time to measuring distance, readers will learn how math can make travel more interesting and more fun.
Bats have a bad reputation as blood-sucking creatures of the night. But these fascinating mammals actually help people by eating insect pests and pollinating fruit trees and flowers. In this book packed with fun facts and vivid photographs, readers will learn all about the bat’s amazing body, its habits and activities, and how they can help this important species survive.
What’s better than baking a yummy pizza? Using math skills while you cook! Young readers will explore concepts such as measuring, adding, dividing, and counting in this cooking adventure.
There’s lot of ways to use math at school! Readers will count students and objects, learn about time, and use addition and subtraction as they go through a typical day at school.
How many objects are in the shopping basket? How many more do we need? How much does each item cost? Young readers will enjoy helping with this shopping trip as they practice counting, adding, and using money.
Young readers will use math skills such as measuring, counting, and adding as they plant flowers and vegetables in this gardening experience.
Young readers will learn about counting, adding, and greater than/less than and equal to while enjoying a day at a baseball game.
The American West was once an unexplored frontier and the home of thousands of American natives. Explore the Old West—from fool's gold to buckaroos—with amazing facts about cowboys and Indians and the horses they rode.
In the Brothers Grimm’s story of “The White Snake,” a servant marries the King’s daughter to live happily ever after. Will that be the case in this cursed retelling of a doomed dinner?
In this updated retelling of Brother Grimm’s “Jorinda and Joringel” a shape-changing witch protects her privacy at all costs. When the engaged couple Jorinda and Jacob stumble into the witch’s part of the forest, she takes them captive. The hateful witch changes Jorinda into a singing bird. Will her fiancé save her or will the witch keep her singing bird caged forever?
Wrangling your monster to a rodeo? Or sharing the stands with him at a hockey game? Buckle up for another cross country trip with your favorite monster--from British Columbia to Newfoundland and all the Canada in between! Wherever you and your monster are traveling, Travel Guide for Monsters Part Deux: Canada is full of essential tips to help you both enjoy the sights of Canada and avoid monster-related trouble--eh?
