Content leveled readers teach science concepts, vocabulary, and reading skills – at each student’s reading level – and allow students to read and explore the wonders of nonfiction. Leveled science readers deliver science content to help address the individual needs of all students. They reinforce reading skills and strategies while promoting science understanding. Each grade 2 science reader is a richly illustrated, self-contained little book with ten to twelve double pages.
This collection of re-recorded Python sketches is a must-have for Monty Python enthusiasts with some classic sketches in a slightly different form from their original TV airings.
Seasoned pilot and aviation writer Olsen offers portraits of four kinds of peacetime flying that aren’t too well known to the public but put aircraft and pilots at the kind of risk commonly associated with combat. It’s hard to imagine a more gripping book for aviation buffs than Olsen’s depiction of some of the hairier aspects of service networks usually taken for granted and seldom properly noticed by the media. --Roland Green
A collection of puzzles drawn from unusual situations that occur in science and nature. How can a battleship float in a few hundred gallons of water? Why does a bird cage weigh the same whether the bird is flying or perching? These puzzles are an infuriating blend of the obvious and the elusive.
