Describes various aspects of life in Colonial America including farming practices, housing, food, medicine, slavery, and recreational activities.

Explores the sense of taste and the body parts used to produce it as well as its relationship to smell.

The tiger is the largest of the world's big cats--and the one that is most endangered. There are only 5,000 to 7,000 tigers left in the wild today, all of them in Asia. This book describes the habits and characteristics of the five kinds of tigers that exist today: Bengal tiger, Siberian tiger (the world's largest cat), Indochinese tiger, Sumatran tiger, and South China tiger.

Suggests what to consider when selecting a gerbil for a pet and explains what it needs by way of housing, food, health care, and activities.

Discover what Earth looks like from space, how the Earth moves through the solar system, what the conditions are for life on Earth, what you would find if you dug a really deep hole, what it is like on the Moon, and what space missions have taught us about Earth. Features time lines, drawings, photos, and an easy-to-understand explanation of global warming.