Alkire, Jessie

Explores the history of biofuel and how biomass is harvested, produced, and used for energy. Discusses the history of biofuel and both its positive and negative aspects. Includes a timeline, diagrams, text-related questions, a glossary, and color photographs.

Explores the history and technology behind the use of geothermal energy. Includes a timeline, diagrams, text-related questions, a glossary, and color photographs.

Briefly examines how natural gas is produced by dead plant and animal matter deep underground, how natural gas came to be used as an energy source, and how natural gas use has changed over time up to today. Includes a glossary.

Explores the history of coal and how it is formed, mined, and burned for heat and power. Discusses both its positive and negative aspects. Includes a timeline, diagrams, text-related questions, a glossary, and color photographs.

Briefly explores the history of mankind's use of oil for energy, from ancient fire arrows made by lighting oil on arrowheads up to the first oil well to be drilled by Edwin Drake in America, and on to how much oil and gasoline we use everyday for energy in the twenty-first century. Includes a glossary.

Explains how the sun's rays can be captured and used as a source of energy with a variety of projects.

This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Readers learn about Ginsburg's early life, her beginnings in law as a clerk in New York, her time as a lawyer for the ACLU, and her service on the US Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Features include a timeline, glossary, fun facts, online resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Explores the notion of animal dignity and rights and what it is like to work as a wild animal rehabilitator, where humans will rescue injured or sick wild animals and nurse them back to health, then release them into the wild again.

Presents information on ancient cities such as Pompeii, Troy, Machu Picchu, and Chich?n Itz? that has been learned through archeological excavations. Discusses the artifacts discovered, and how new technology is being used to uncover more objects and information. Includes a timeline, a glossary, access to further online resources, and color photographs.

Explores some of the world's most gag-worthy creatures, then discover how to make fun projects inspired by gross animals.