Waxman, Laura Hamilton

"A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Olympic ice hockey and curling. Includes descriptions of each of these men's and women's ice sports, including the mixed doubles curling event. Readers will get a primer to some rules and athletes that may participate in the Winter Olympic Games. Includes Q&A feature, table of contents, glossary, further resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.

"A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Olympic speedskating. Includes descriptions of each of the men's and women's long and short races. Readers will get a primer to some rules and athletes that may participate in the 2018 PeyongChang, South Korea Winter Olympic Games. Includes Q&A feature, table of contents, glossary, further resources, and index"--.

"[Young readers are invited to] take a journey with Juan Ponce de Le?n ... [using] primary sources from his time to learn about his historical explorations"--Provided by publisher.

"A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Olympic figure skating. Includes descriptions of men's and women's singles program, ice dancing, pairs skating, and the team figure skating events. Readers will get a primer to some rules and athletes that may participate in the Winter Olympic Games. Includes Q&A feature, table of contents, glossary, further resources, and index"--Provided by the publisher.

"A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Olympic bobsled, luge, and skeleton events. Includes descriptions of each of these men's and women's sliding sports. Readers will get a primer to some rules and athletes that may participate in the 2018 PeyongChang, South Korea Winter Olympic Games. Includes Q&A feature, table of contents, glossary, further resources, and index"--Provided by the publisher.

"This title examines different aspects of fireflies, including their body parts and structure, their habitat, their eating behavior, what they do, and how they communicate"--Provided by publisher.

"This photo-illustrated book describes basking sharks, the second-largest sharks in the sea. Explains how they use gill-rakers to feed on zooplankton, their life cycle, and work being done to protect this species of huge but gentle sharks"--Provided by the publisher.

"This photo-illustrated book describes the tiger shark, or as some call it, the garbage can of the sea. Explains their life cycle, how they hunt prey, and their ocean habitat. Includes information about how dangerous of a predator this shark is and how we can stay safe in the ocean with them"--Provided by the publisher.

"Henry Hudson spent years searching for the Northwest Passage. Though he never found it, he became the first European to sail up the Hudson River, which bears his name ... [This book provides] primary sources from Hudson's time to [help readers] learn about his journeys"--Provided by publisher.

Describes physical characteristics of dolphins, how they swim, how they breathe, what they eat, and how they raise their young.