Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld: 24 books
Secrets of the Garden
Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Background
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Perfect for spring planting season--an outstanding book about backyard science the whole family will appreciate.
Alice's family plants a vegetable garden each spring, and this budding naturalist reports all she sees about how the plants grow, what insects come to eat the plants, and what birds...
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
All blizzards are snowstorms, but not all snowstorms are blizzards! What is the difference? How much snow falls during a blizzard? How fast are the winds? How cold does it get during a blizzard? Read and find out!
Written by acclaimed children’s science writer Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and...
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The family from Secrets of the Garden are back in a new book about backyard science that explains why the seasons change.
Alice and her friend Zack explore the reasons for the seasons. Alice's narrative is all about noticing the changes as fall turns into winter, spring, and then summer. She...
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Crocodile Encounters
and More True Stories of Adventures with Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The first in a line of adventures with National Geographic Kids Chapters books, Crocodile Encounters will surely prove to be one of the most exciting. Follow along with National Geographic explorer Brady Barr as he crawls into a muddy hole just barely big enough for his shoulders, and comes face to...
Finding the First T. Rex (Totally True Adventures)
How a Giant Meat-Eater was Dug Up...
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
IN 1902, WILLIAM HORNADAY handed a map to the famous paleontologist Barnum Brown. It was Hornaday’s hand-drawn directions to a remote area of the Montana Badlands, where he believed amazing dinosaur fossils lay buried. Following the map, Brown dug up a jawbone edged with six-inch long teeth, the...
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
29,028 feet tall and still growing?!
Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's...
What Is the World Made Of?
All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Can you make an ice cube disappear? Put it on a hot sidewalk. It melts into water and then vanishes! The ice cube changes from solid to liquid to gas. This Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out picture book is a fascinating exploration of the three states of matter.
Now rebranded with a new cover...
Ghost Mysteries
Unraveling the World's Most Mysterious Hauntings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Readers will delve deep—if they dare—into the history of ghosts and their portrayal in literature, art, and pop culture. From the spooky world of haunted castles to the subject of ghost-hunting, this book explores this fascinating subject through stories, facts, and pictures. Perfect for year-round reading—not just at Halloween—this book is sure to thrill readers of all ages!
The Curse of King Tut's Mummy (Totally True Adventures)
How a Lost Tomb Was Found
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
When the pharoahs of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in pyramids and tombs with all their riches. But as centuries passed, the tombs were looted and the pharoahs' gold stolen. Then Howard Carter found the greatest Egyptian treasure trove of all—the tomb of King Tut's mummy! But did the amazing treasure come with a deadly curse?
Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures)
How Three Brave Astronauts Survived A Space Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Could you survive an outer-space disaster? Aspiring astronauts and young explorers will love this out-of-this-world Totally True Adventure.
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Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise blasted off for the Moon on April 11, 1970. But after a disastrous explosion damaged their spacecraft,...
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum. That means he’s always zooming off to strange places to find ruins and treasure. But Jeff has never gone along—until now. They’re headed to the Sahara desert to search for dinosaur fossils. And Jeff knows he’ll find the bones of the biggest meat-eater ever!
“The...
National Geographic Kids Chapters: The Whale Who Won Hearts
And More True Stories of Adventures with Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
National Geographic Kids Chapters picks up where the best-selling National Geographic Readers series leaves off. This new series offers young animal lovers who are ready for short chapters lively, full-color true stories just right to carry in a backpack, share with friends, and read under the covers...
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Monster Fish!
True Stories of Adventures With Animals
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
For Zeb Hogan, bigger is better – especially when it comes to fish. From sawfish to alligator gars to giant stingrays, Zeb's on a mission to save the world's freshwater giants. In this cool Chapter book, you'll join Zeb on amazing – and TRUE – adventures with supersize swimmers.
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Scrapes With Snakes
True Stories of Adventures With Animals
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Join National Geographic expert and TV personality Brady Barr on some wild adventures with snakes! Readers won't believe their eyes as they read Barr's hilarious—and completely true!—accounts of his interactions with some of the biggest, weirdest, and craziest snakes on Earth. Filled with engaging photos, fast facts, and fascinating sidebars, readers won't want to put this book down.
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