{"id":974,"date":"2021-02-12T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=974"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:07:51","slug":"amazing-islands-100-places-that-will-boggle-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/amazing-islands-100-places-that-will-boggle-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Islands: 100+ Places that Will Boggle Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amazingislands-595x625.jpg?resize=525%2C551&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"551\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13738\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3b128lw\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781912920167\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781912920167?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amazing Islands: 100+ Places that Will Boggle Your Mind<\/em><br \/>\nby Sabrina Weiss (Author) and Kerry Hyndman (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> From islands that have been taken over by animals to disappearing islands, islands made of shells, artificial islands, and even islands that were once prison colonies, this book for ages 7-11 takes you on an exciting tour of some of the smallest land masses in the world. The book also includes a world map, which plots all the islands found in the book, plus fold out flaps with engaging lists of island facts, including the top 10 biggest and 10 smallest inhabited islands in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amazingislands1-595x320.jpg?resize=525%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13739\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Amazing Islands: 100+ Places that Will Boggle Your Mind by Sabrina Weiss (Author) and Kerry Hyndman (Illustrator) Booktalk: From islands that have been taken over by animals to disappearing islands, islands made of shells, artificial islands, and even islands that were once prison colonies, this book for ages 7-11 takes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/amazing-islands-100-places-that-will-boggle-your-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazing Islands: 100+ Places that Will Boggle Your Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-fI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":244,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/one-iguana-two-iguanas\/","url_meta":{"origin":974,"position":0},"title":"One Iguana, Two Iguanas","author":"@roberta3","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at Wrapped in Foil Blog today we're highlighting Sneed B. 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