Jason Chin
1) Gravity
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Language
English
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Description
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity, the invisible force that causes objects to attract each other. Here the author has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
2) Redwoods
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Language
English
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Description
A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
3) Watercress
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Language
English
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An island is about to be born- one that in time will become the home of plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. This book is the biography of a Gal�apagos island- from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.