Rebecca Stefoff

Explores and explains how the Panama Canal was built. The book explores why the canal was built and describes the design stages and technologies used during construction. The book also describes the challenges builders faced while building the canal.

Presents the history of the British colonies in North America, beginning with the Jamestown settlement, through excerpts from letters, pamphlets, journal entries, and other documents of the time.

Text and photographs introduce some of the 3600 kinds of starfish.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and camouflage abilities of this unusual fish.

Discusses the history of horses and their domestication by humans, as well as their physical characteristics and behavior.

Presents information on some of the causes of the Civil War, the battles fought between 1861 and 1863, and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Examines the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural habitat of various kinds of hummingbirds.

Charles Darwin's famous theory of natural selection shook the world of science to its core, challenging centuries of orthodox beliefs about life itself. Darwin's boundary-shattering treatise was captured in On the Origin of Species, originally published in 1859, a groundbreaking and detailed study on ecological interrelatedness, the complexity of animal and plant life, and the realities of evolution. This Young Reader's Edition makes Darwin's cornerstone...

Examines the causes, events, and aftermath of America's war for independence.