If you look at a piece of a leaf or a drop of saliva through a microscope, what do you see? Cells are the basic building blocks of life and they make up every living thing, from plants to animals, from humans to bacteria! In Cells: Experience Life at Its Tiniest, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate cells and learn how they affect our health, reproduction, criminal investigations, and agriculture.…
The third edition fully covers both Core and Extended content through the 'spiral' approach, where students build their previous learning as they progress through the course. In addition to wealth of practice questions and support for English as second language learners, we have included a number of projects to encourage students to put their theory into practice provided by NRICH – a collabo…
Mafatu has been afraid of the sea for as long as he can remember. Though his father is the great chief of Hikueru-an island whose seafaring people worship caourage-Mafatu feels like an outsider. All his life he has been teased, taunted, and even blamed for storms on the sea. Then at age fifteen, no longer willing to put up with the ridicule and jibes, Mafatu decides to take his fate into his o…
Letters and numbers don't make any sense to Juice Faulstich. She'd rather skip school and help her father in his workshop. But when the bank threatens to repossess her family's home, Juice faces her first life-size problem and is determined to find a way out.
Juice Faulstich lives with her Pa and Ma and her four sisters way of in the hills. Working with her comes easy to Juice, but letter and numbers don't make any sense to her, so she's starting thrid grade all over again.