Jordan D Brown: 13 books

Learn the fascinating science behind baseball in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the science of fun stuff! Did you know that every time you watch a baseball game, you are watching some great examples of physics in action? Why exactly does the amount...

Learn the science behind the fun of amusement parks in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the science of fun stuff! Did you know that a rollercoaster does not need an engine or power source of its own? And how exactly does a bumper car go without gas?...

Don't be fooled by what your brain thinks you see! Fooled Ya! is a kid's guide to the mind bending world of illusions, perception, and why we can be tricked. Don't be fooled again, learn the tricks! Discover the variety of ways our brains can trick us, from the visual trickery of optical...

Learn all about the soaring science behind aerodynamic airplanes in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the science of fun stuff! Did you know that some military aircrafts are capable of “supersonic flight,” traveling at speeds faster than sound? Or...

DO try this at home!   Science Stunts will start a chain reaction of fun and experimentation outside the lab. Readers will be amazed and delighted as they try magic tricks that are based in important physics concepts such as gravity, inertia, magnetism, sound vibrations, and more. Narrated by a humorous...

Hold onto your cape, you’re about to become an expert on the high-flying science behind superpowers in this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the science of fun stuff! Did you know that advancements in robotics could soon make super-powered suits a reality?...

Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they travel to the moon in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! Jet takes his friends on an out of this world adventure to the moon! While they are there they take a look back at man’s first moon landing—Apollo...

Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they explore the solar system in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! Why do stars twinkle in the sky, but planets don’t? Jet, Sydney, and Sean are about to find out during the best sleepover ever! This...

Oh, no! Jet’s pet Sunspot is missing! How on Earth will he ever find him? Find out in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! When Jet’s pet Sunspot goes missing, Jet and his Earth friends use the North Star to navigate their way to find him. This...

Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they travel to Pluto in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! Jet and his friends are going on a journey all the way to Pluto! Come along and learn about the dwarf planet way out at the edge of our solar...

Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they celebrate Earth in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBS’s hit show Ready Jet Go! When Jet learns that humans celebrate Earth Day, he can’t help but wonder, why can’t every day be Earth Day? After he takes his friends...

In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new original terror tales from the darkest and most brilliant minds in comics and prose. Featuring an introduction by American Vampire, The Wake, and Severed writer Scott Snyder, and a frightful feature on the history of horror comics, through their rotten rise and dreadful decline by comic book historian Mike Howlett!

Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...