Akron Public Library

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them.

Provides an introduction to the detective-like work of archaeologists who search for clues in the ground to learn how people lived in the past.

A simple explanation of the structure of the heart and how it works.

This books explains how sounds are made, and the purposes they serve both for humans and other animals.

A simple introduction to the habits of birds, bats, butterflies, and mammals in winter.

In simple text, presents the three states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas, and describes their attributes.

An introduction to the human skeletal system, explaining how the 206 bones of the skeleton join together, how they grow, how they help make blood, what happens when they break, and how they mend.

Describes the formation and characteristics of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and how to recognize and collect them.

Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains. The earth's continents rest on plates that move slowly across our planet's...

A brief study of the first creatures on earth to develop voices and an aversion to dry skin.