Let's-read-and-find-out science book

A simple description of how corn was discovered and used by the Indians and how it came to be an important food throughout the world.

Explains the phases of the moon--the changes that seem to happen to it as it goes around Earth.

Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey.

29,028 feet tall and still growing?! Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains.