Books from Heinemann-Raintree Library

  • Forms of Energy
    By Anna Claybourne

    'Forms of Energy' explores the different types of energy that are around us all the time.

  • Dolphins
    By Anna Claybourne

    Provides information about dolphins, including habitat, life cycle, eating habits, and intelligence.

  • Surrealism
    By Anna Claybourne

    Introduces surrealism, including its history, the fundamentals of the art movement, and famous surrealist artists.

  • Growing Plants: Plant Life Processes
    By Anna Claybourne

    Presents an introduction to plants, discussing their different needs, how they reproduce, use to humans, and place in food chains.

  • The World's Most Amazing Coasts
    By Anna Claybourne

    Explores the world's coasts, describing how they are shaped by waves and erosion and discussing the plants and animals that live along them and cities that are built near them.

  • Healthy Eating: Diet and Nutrition
    By Anna Claybourne

    Presents an introduction to the basic food groups, describing how they contribute to a healthy body and providing recipes for preparing dishes from each group.

  • Tigers
    By Anna Claybourne

    Provides information about tigers, including eating habits, life cycle, intelligence, and the threats they face.

  • Vincent Van Gogh: The Troubled Artist
    By Anna Claybourne, Vincent van Gogh

    The Troubled Artist Anna Claybourne, Vincent van Gogh. Famous Lives Vincent van GO Gogh The Troubled Artist Anna Claybourne Vincent van Gogh The Troubled Artist Anna Claybourn R Raintree Front Cover.

  • Life Processes
    By Anna Claybourne

    Anna Claybourne. THE WEB OF LIFE THE WEB OF LIFE Life Processes Anna Claybourne Chicago, Illinois Contents The Question of Life .....................................................................4 The Seven Life Processes.

  • Make It Glow!
    By Anna Claybourne

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  • Make It Grow!
    By Anna Claybourne

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  • Ancient Greece
    By Anna Claybourne

    Anna Claybourne. A beautiful bay on the island of Corfu . GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE Ancient Greece is on the Mediterranean Sea . Travelers like to visit Greece because of its warm , dry summers . There are many great civilizations near the ...

  • The Renaissance
    By Anna Claybourne

    Anna Claybourne. EXPLORE THE WORLD The Renaissance is a great age of exploration , when Europeans discover huge parts of the world they had not even known existed . The most important voyages of exploration depart from Spain and ...

  • Mental Development: From Birth to Old Age
    By Anna Claybourne

    From Birth to Old Age Anna Claybourne. Risk-taking Very young adults, in their early and mid-twenties, are still much more likely to take risks than older people. This is partly because the prefrontal cortex (see page 8), ...

  • Texas History
    By Mary Dodson Wade

    ... Shawnee , married couple from Mexico . and Delaware Indians moved into the area north of Doña Patricia de la Garza Nacogdoches . The Alabama and Coushatta Indians De Leon and her husband moved into southeast Texas .

  • The Story Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
    By Laura Hensley

    SCOTT Early Life TZGERALD Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul , Minnesota , on September 24 , 1896. Scott , as he was known , was named after Francis Scott Key , a cousin who wrote the " Star Spangled Banner , " the U.S. ...

  • How to Read a Work of Art
    By Laura Hensley

    This book discusses how to interpret a work of art and guides readers as they interpret works of art throughout the book.

  • Buildings and Structures
    By Andrew Solway

    Looks at the application of science and new technologies to building and engineering projects, including new forms of such traditional elements as arches and domes, energy effiency, earthquake proofing, dams, canals, and tunnels.

  • Castle Under Siege!: Simple Machines
    By Andrew Solway

    Looks at the simple machines used to build and defend castles, including pulleys, levers, wheels and axles, wedges, and screws.

  • Uniquely Nevada
    By Rebecca O'Connor, Rebecca K. O'Connor, Dennis Myers

    He approached Levi Strauss , a successful San Francisco businessman , with the idea , and they obtained a patent for it . The blue jeans they developed were extremely durable - an important feature for hard - working miners - and a ...