Author: Sylvia Earle
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: critters, sea
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0792271815
ISBN-13: 9780792271819

Beginning readers encounter a fascinating array of sea "critters" representing the major categories of life on Earth. Children will meet a gigantic barrel sponge, eerie looking nudibranches, and a tentacled cuttlefish. They observe sea squirts, moray eels, and a human diver. The stunning full-color photos, art, maps and simple text will spark curiosity and appeal to a child’s sense of wonder. Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children (NSTA/CBC) "A lovely, browsable introduction to … animals that live in the ocean …. The photographs throughout are stunning and engaging …." —Schoo

Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: gold, rush, california, tales, fever
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1426300409
ISBN-13: 9781426300400

Catch the fever! Gold fever swept the nation—and the world—in 1848 when carpenter James Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River near John Sutter’s mill. As word spread of gold in California, the news set off a westward stampede. Fortune seekers and adventurers poured into California by land and sea, wild with excitement and expectation. Rosalyn Schanzer’s engaging and humorous book tells the story of these prospectors in their own words. Schanzer has gathered her favorite quotes from journals and letters written by the forty-niners to recount the discovery of go

Authors:David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes,
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: face, animals, sharks
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1426304048
ISBN-13: 9781426304040

It is man’s greatest fear—being eaten alive. And diving down here in the depths, the streamlined shark holds every advantage. How close do you want to get?Acclaimed underwater photographer David Doubilet takes you deep into their dangerous realm. Yet he points out that it is we who are the killers! Our fear and ignorance puts this diverse family of fish in great danger. Let David teach you about sharks’ complex nature, and about how you can help to save the shark.

Author: Paul Robert Walker
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: people, stories, time, rock, little, remember
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2009-01-13
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1426304021
ISBN-13: 9781426304026

Just over 50 years ago, in Little Rock, Arkansas, nine brave black students stood up for their rights and made history. The integration of Central High School in Little Rock changed the course of education in America forever, and became one of the pivotal points in the Civil Rights Movement.In Remember Little Rock award-winning author Paul Robert Walker uses eyewitness accounts and on-the-scene news photography to take a fresh look at a time of momentous consequence in U.S. history. Here, we get the story from all sides: the students directly involved; their fellow students, black and white; p

Author: Barbara Kerley
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: peace, little
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1426300867
ISBN-13: 9781426300868

The latest National Geographic Children’s Books title by Barbara Kerley, A Little Peace, gives a richly evocative and thought-provoking view of the world our children will inherit. Wise words and moving images offer a unique and enriching experience for every young reader. According to author Barbara Kerley, "I believe that peace doesn’t just rest in the hands of politicians and world leaders. We all have the power to make the world more peaceful."The book juxtaposes photographs from around the world with a simple, reflective message about our responsibilities for finding and keepi

Author: Audrey Salkeld
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: world, highest, mountain, tragedy, triumph, everest, tales, climbing
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0792251059
ISBN-13: 9780792251057

These gripping accounts of adventure and danger will mesmerize readers from cover to cover! Stunning illustrations and compelling text provide an up-close look at six famous ascents of the world’s highest mountain. Detailed chapters cover the enduring mystery of George Mallory’s death on Everest; Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s triumphant first steps on the summit; the Chinese team’s scaling of the mountain from Tibet; Reinhold Messner’s two monumental climbs (one without supplemental oxygen, the other solo); the 1983 American summit via the treacherous East Face; and the hea

Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: photobiographies, bly, nellie, photobiography, bylines
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1426305133
ISBN-13: 9781426305139

Bylines is the latest title from award-winning biographer Sue Macy. Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist who lived by the belief that "Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything." This credo took her from humble origins in Cochran’s Mill, Pennsylvania, a town named after her father, to the most exotic cities around the globe by the time she was 25.Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864, in an age when many women led unassuming lives. Her life would make people sit up and take notice: When she wasn’t making history herself, she was writing about othe