Bandon Public Library

"This introduction to mathematical estimating and rounding explains the difference between the two, their uses, and gives directions for estimating and rounding."--

Huge numbers are hard to comprehend. This book explains quantities in terms children can understand. For example, one million dollars could buy two full pizzas a day for more than sixty-eight years

A biography of the Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition

On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery

A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

We can't see magnetism, but it's everywhere around us - even the Earth is a giant magnet! Adler covers the basics of magnetism, explaining terms such as attraction, pole, electromagnetism and force.

This concise chronicle of the famous explorer's life centers on his boyhood in Genoa, Italy, his dreams of voyaging west and his final voyages.

Introduces triangles, discussing the different types of triangles and the concept of triangle size measured in degrees.

Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...

A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.