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Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose...
3) An Easy-to-Follow Lesson on Heat and Light: Energy Books for Kids Grade 3 Children's Physics Books
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This book will help you understand the concepts of heat and light, not just in theory but also through examples. At the end of this book, you should be able to identify the objects that emit heat and light. You should also have a solid understanding of the energy forms of heat and light. Read and learn from this book today.
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Discover the powerful world of energy! This nonfiction picture book introduces budding scientists to the different types of energy, including chemical energy, kinetic energy, and solar energy. Alongside charming illustrations, author Darlene R. Stille delivers a fun, engaging read-aloud or beginning read-alone. Includes hands-on experiments!
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A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models of the climate system. This book conveys that the basics of climate and climate change...
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This book will focus on the three types of energy - heat, light and sound. At the end of this book, you should demonstrate competence in identifying types and sources of energy. You should also be able to give examples of how each of these three types of energy is used in applied sciences.
12) Sun
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"Did you know that the Sun is the largest and most massive object in Earth's solar system? It measures more than 2.7 million miles (4.35 million kilometers) in circumference. Find out more in Sun, one of the titles in the Discovering Space series"--
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Why are ravens black? Why do screech owl eyes look red in light? How did we get fire? You'll find the answers to those questions in this retelling of a Cherokee pourquoi folktale. The earth was cold and dark but the animals could see fire coming from the tree on the island. They tried to fly or swim to the island to bring back the fire heat and light. What happened to some of the animals? Which animal brought it back and how?"--
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"Most of our energy has come from oil, gas, and coal. Find out how we can heat and light our buildings, travel, and power our computers and devices without harming the planet in this resourceful title. Extracting resources damages the environment, and burning them contributes to global warming, harms our health, and pollutes the air and water. Case studies show how scientists are investigating renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power,...
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Heat and light are important for survival, but where would you find heat and light in an emergency? Showcasing important survival skills, this fascinating book examines the outdoor skills that are needed to survive extreme elements. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME content, this book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The detailed sidebars, fascinating images,...
17) Sun
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Did you know that the Sun makes life on Earth possible? Its heat and light help things live and grow. Discover more in Sun, a title in the Space
Systems: Patterns and Cycles series.
18) Averno
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2006.
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Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding...
20) Mr. Lightbulb
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"Mirroring the world we live in, the protagonist of this graphic novel comes from a broken home. However, in this case, the term is quite literal. Due to freak accidents at the steelworks where his parents work, his mom is snapped, his dad is flattened. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, one day, he suffers his own life-changing experience: mistakenly swallowing a glob of molten metal gives him the strange power to radiate heat and light -- like...