See how a little seed can grow into a mighty tree. Trees flower every year and new seeds form. Some will grow into new trees. Discover the shapes and leaves and fruit of different trees.
Travel through time. See primitive huts by a river replaced by houses in a hilltop village inside fortified walls. Watch how bridges, road and railways change the village into a modern town.
Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? Who is inside the sarcophagus? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning —longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Bl…