Friday Reads

Picture Book of the Day

Birds of a Feather
by Jane Yolen (Author) and Jason Stemple (Photographer)

Booktalk: Poems about birds are accompanied by close-up, full-color photographs and fact boxes that describe each bird’s habits.

Snippet:
The Regal Eagle
The regal eagle sits alone
upon a tree that serves as a throne.

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Chapter Book of the Day

Gases, Pressure, and Wind: The Science of the Atmosphere (Weatherwise)
Paul Fleisher (Author)
48 pages

Booktalk: As Hurricane Irene bears down the Eastern United States, here is a book that explains how the ever-changing atmosphere determines weather around the globe.

Snippet: Air may seem to be weightless. But gases do have mass. (Mass is the amount of matter, or substance, in something.) The total weight of Earth’s atmosphere is about 5,600 trillion (5,6000,000,000,000,000) tons (5,080 trillion metric tons)!

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Poetry Friday

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Live. Love. Explore!

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STEM Friday

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
This week’s STEM Friday Round-up is hosted by Picture Book of the Day

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STEM Friday video

Robot Swarm Snatches Book video

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