New Releases by Greg Roza

Presents general information about comets and asteroids, including what they are, what they are made of, and their relationship to the solar system.

This book tells about the character Frankenstein and provides step-by-step instructions for drawing the character in eight different poses.

Step-by-step instructions to recreate the king of the jungle, King Kong.

Introduces the Halogen Family and teaches how these elements are connected, found, used, and structured.

Presents the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Oregon, as well as general facts about the state.

Information about safety and rules of driving presented in the form of questions and answers.

Introduces the concept of probability and shows how it works when flipping coins, spinning a spinner, rolling dice, and picking marbles out of a bag, including how the odds change with different spinners or changing numbers of dice or marbles.

Discusses how to measure the perimeters of various types of playing fields, such as football and soccer, by using addition and multiplication.

Brief biography of early rock & roll musician Bo Diddley.

Explains representing numbers in the billions and describes the Hubble Space Telescope that was put into orbit in 1990 and the space images it relays to us.

This book describes how scientists calculate velocity to predict where and when severe storms, such as thunderstorms, blizzards, and tornadoes, will hit.

Introduces the algebraic equation and variables using examples relating to flight.

The nitrogen elements consist of Phosphorous, Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth. This book explains their properties, uses, history, and chemical makeup.

Islands are in constant transition. This book illustrates how islands are formed, how they disappear and what they reveal about what lies beneath them.

What gives Tyrian purple dye its brilliant color--the element bromine (chemical symbol: Br). Bromine compounds were first extracted from a tropical sea snail in ancient times and used in purple dyes for fabrics. The color was sometimes called imperial or royal purple. This engaging narrative describes the discovery of bromine, its place on the periodic table, its similar and different characteristics with the other halogens in group 17, and its electron configuration. A thorough discussion of bromine ions, the process of steaming out in preparing pure bromine, and the various bromine compounds and their industrial uses are also included.

Receiving a go-kart as a kindergarten graduation present, Kevin Harvick got behind the wheel early and has been racing ever since. By the age of 20, he became a NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Featherlite Southwest series. Soon he was racing in all three of NASCARu0092s most prestigious nationwide series. In two of these series he would win Rookie of the Year honors. Only one year after being named the NASCAR Busch series Rookie of the Year, he would win the Busch series championship in 2001. Heu0092d win it again in 2006. With 11 wins, 5 poles, 51 Top 5 finishes, 105 Top 10 finishes, and almost $40 million in earnings during his still young NASCAR career, Harvick has certainly delivered on the early promise he showed as a 5-year-old in his go-kart. Thereu0092s no telling how much farther and faster this speed demon will go!

The tundra is among the coldest places on Earth. Yet, many varieties of life exist in the ecosystem. This book explains how these adaptable forms of life coexist.

Take your readers on a trip back in time with this engaging book about the history of the first U.S. transcontinental highway. The trip begins with Carl G. Fisher and his vision of the Lincoln Highway, and continues through the planning, construction, use, and legacy of the great road.

Bundle up for a fact-finding mission to the Arctic. Readers will learn about Arctic plants and animals, and how they depend on each other for survival in the coldest ecosystem on Earth.

This book explains the characteristics of plutonium, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.

Explains the characteristics of arsenic, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.

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If a second-grader was a strong as an ant, he or she would be able to lift a car. This book takes readers under the surface into the fascinating and complex world of the ant colony. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.

With a look at the different people vital to our community and their jobs, reader''s ask and answer the important questions: who, what, when, where, and why. Strongly correlated to the Informational Text Standards from the Common Core, readers look into the lives of welders, scientist, businessmen, and more.

Describes the history, key people, teams, important games, and mascots of the Southeastern Conference of NCAA basketball.

A process of assimilation and cultural layering makes Incan mythology a rich and complex brew of Andean folklore, history, and belief. This book serves up a sumptuous offering of Incan and other Andean myths, and sheds light on cultures that often remain shrouded in mystery to this day. These myths and legends are placed within a context of history, archaeology, religion, folk beliefs, and culture, that both explains and enhances their meaning. Dozens of full-color images illuminate the rich storytelling.

Football in the Southeastern Conference offers a wealth of fascinating information and statistics about one of the nationu0092s most popular sports and its most successful and profitable college conferences. In the rich tradition of sports journalism, this book is written with a reverence for the history of college football, an enthusiasm for statistics, and a u0093you are thereu0094 style of reporting. Packed with information, it includes teams and mascots, player and coach profiles, conference rivalries, and important game highlights.

Explains the characteristics of potassium, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.

Describes the devastation of various earthquakes and how people survived them.

Biography of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhart providing information on his youth, his early racing career, and his success winning races in NASCAR.