Natural World category: 7079 books
Florence Nightingale
The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don’t know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation. She...
The Great Peshtigo Fire
Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Fire
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
On the night of October 8, 1871, a whirlwind of fire swept through northeastern Wisconsin, destroying the bustling frontier town of Peshtigo. Trees, buildings, and people burst into flames. Metal melted. Sand turned into glass. People thought the end of the world had come. When the “tornado of fire”...
Eyes Wide Open
Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them.
We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before...
Fooled Ya!
How Your Brain Gets Tricked by Optical Illusions, Magicians, Hoaxes & More
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
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...
by Einspruch Andrew
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This fun Spanish-translated e-book takes readers along on the journey of three children, who become crime scene investigators after pieces of their favorite playground equipment begin to disappear. The children collect data and analyze their findings, eventually catching the culprit! This digital...
Nefertiti, the spidernaut
The Jumping Spider Who Learned to Hunt in Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF NEFERTITI, THE SPIDERNAUT --
Most spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would...
by DK Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
After years of planning, marine biologists Dom Marlin and Jake Sturgeon set off to explore Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest ocean trench in the world, in DK Adventures: Terrors of the Deep.
Join them from pre-launch checks in the submersible Orion, to their encounters with great...
by D. J. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Millions of people live in cities around the world, but have you ever wondered how cities work? All those people need clean water to drink, a safe place to live, and a way to get all around the city! How do you take care of all those people’s needs? Your city has a plan for that.
Read and...
DK Adventures: Twister!
A Terrifying Tale of Superstorms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When Jeremy visits his twin cousins Jack and Flash in Oklahoma, he gets a big surprise: they're storm chasers! They live in a region called Tornado Alley, an area with more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world. Jack and Flash travel around Tornado Alley looking for tornadoes, and Jeremy is coming...
by Caitlind L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
A frogfish is one of the craziest animals you will ever see. Have you ever seen a fish that cannot swim? Or a fish that walks around the bottom of the ocean on two hands? Or even a fish that fishes for its food?
Well then meet the frogfish!
Find out what a frogfish looks like, where it lives,...
Coral Reefs
A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt,...
by Caitlind L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
How would you like to live your life in a suit of armor? That is what an armadillo does.
An armadillo is an animal that is covered in armor. It has bony plates around its body to protect it. The plates are hard, like a turtle's shell.
The armadillo looks a bit like an anteater. That’s because it...
by Kerim Ozkan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
1) This is My Planet: Our planet is the most important thing in our lives, as we wouldn’t exist without it. The stories in this book explain to children that we as human beings not only have to protect our planet, but also need to be kinder to our animal friends...
by Judith Janda Presnall
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I Wonder… About Insects.
Are all ladybugs females?
Does a honeybee make flavored honey?
Will a stinkbug smell better if it takes a bath?
Can a walking stick fly?
Will fruit flies eat vegetables?
Do army ants carry guns?
Learn the answer to these questions and many more in this fascinating...