Uses cartoon-style characters and everyday situations to explain the basic elements of physics.

Provides readers with more than 50 hands-on experiments that can be performed for just pennies, or less.

"Red Kangaroo is having a fun day at the beach! She loves watching the waves go up and down, but, suddenly, she has a question: Do the waves ever stop? Dr. Chris has the answer-not only do waves never stop, but there are all kinds of waves around us! Discover all the waves you can and can't see, plus the waves you can hear! In this new series, Chris Ferrie answers all the questions Red Kangaroo has about what things are made of and how things work...

Hypnotic gestures. Fancy clothes. Lovely assistants. These things may make the magician, but science makes the magic... Levitation tells the amazing true story of the most dazzling illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems too good to be true -- The Scientist: John Neville Maskelyne, the oh-so-proper British magician and the trick's inventor. The American: Harry Kellar couldn't buy the illusion, so he found another...

"Budding scientists will love learning about the properties of electricity by planning and carrying out investigations that explore how the energy form can be produced, conducted, and converted."--

Today radioactivity is widely used to treat cancer, to study fossils, and to power submarines, but until the late 1800s man's understanding of this scientific field was practically non-existent. Indeed, the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity was largely accidental - the by-product of research by the French scientist Henri Becquerel. Atomic Universe traces the path to the discovery of radioactivity and places this major scientific breakthrough...

Introduces essential measurement units, from grams to pounds to tons.

"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 ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

Questions and answers about the origin, role, and types of music in cultures throughout the world.

"When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split"--