heat

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces heat energy. Features include several photographic pages, a glossary, additional resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.

On the hottest night of the hottest part of a very hot summer, Angel, her aunt, and mother drag their mattress to the rooftop to sleep and hope for cooler weather.

Describes how heat waves affect cities and rural areas, forests, the water supply, and soil, discussing such terms as the "heat index," and explains how to survive a heat wave.

Elmer the patchwork elephant and his friends have a fun day playing in the snow, while learning that the concepts of hot and cold are only relative.

Presents a children's book for early readers that introduces vocabulary words about what makes heat, how heat moves, and how heat changes matter.

Oscar and Arabella, two woolly mammoths, try to cool off during a very hot summer.

Explores and explains different properties of temperature through simple experiments.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes the sun, where it is in the solar system, its importance to the earth, sun spots and solar flares, and more.

Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat.

Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.