Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #3: Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Will Osborne $5.99
Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie! When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning, they had lots of questions. Why did people make mummies? What was the mysterious writing on mummy cases? How did most ancient Egyptians spend their days? How were the pyramids...
The Egyptology Handbook: A Course in the Wonders of Egypt (Ologies) by Dugald A. Steer $12.99
Inside this indispensable and beautifully illustrated workbook is everything you need to know to become an esteemed Egyptologist.As readers of the fascinating EGYPTOLOGY are all too aware, the feisty explorer Emily Sands mysteriously vanished on an expedition up the Nile in 1927. But in a remarkable turn of fortune for Miss Sands's many fans, detectives have uncovered a second volume penned in...
Archaeologists Dig for Clues (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Kate Duke $5.99
Archaeologists on a dig work very much like detectives at a crime scene. Every chipped rock, charred seed, or fossilized bone could be a clue to how people lived in the past. In this information-packed Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science book, Kate Duke explains what scientists are looking for, how they find it, and what their finds reveal.
Digging Up Dinosaurs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Aliki $5.99
How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile...
A Street Through Time by DK CHILDREN $19.99
Demonstrating the unfolding of history, panoramic views visiting a particular site every few centuries follow the evolution of a Stone Age riverside settlement into a twentieth-century city. A bold title and date with a few sentences describing significant changes appears in the upper-right-hand corner of each broad vertical scene. Added statements wind around the four borders, offering details...
Polar Bears And The Arctic: A Nonfiction Companion To ""Polar Bears Past Bedtime"" (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Magic Tree House Research Guides (Pb)) by Sal Murdocca $14.75
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Find out why the arctic is so cold, how polar bears cross thin ice, and many other facts about the arctic in this nonfiction companion to Polar Bears Past Bedtime.
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books) by Random House Books for Young Readers $5.99
For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden...
National Geographic Kids Readers: Mummies by National Geographic Children's Books $3.99
Why were mummies mummified? These mysterious corpses provide a fascinating window on the past of cultures worldwide. Mummies has plenty of ghoulish intrigue to keep young readers reading. This irresistible title provides the solid science behind the myths and guarantees a successful and rewarding reading experience for kids at Level 2. Mummiesis a compelling combination of fun, facts, jokes and...
Ice Mummy (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4) by Random House Books for Young Readers $3.99
Reading paragraphsIn 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll’s head. But it wasn’t. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. Ice Mummy—first published by Random House in 1998—tells the story of this amazing discovery, from the struggle to remove the mummy from his icy grave to the creation of his final...
Touch the Art: Tickle Tut's Toes by Sterling $12.95
Experience the wonders of ancient Egypt! This long-gone civilization will come alive for kids when they actually feel a gold coffin with the tomb of the legendary King Tut, the scratchy pyramids at Giza, the gauzy covering on a mummy, and Nefertiti’s jewels. It’s a really cool way to make both art and history accessible to even the youngest children.