Look up on a clear night far from city lights and you will see about 6,000 stars. That is less than 0.00001 % of the stars in the Milky Way alone, which holds 100 billion to 400 billion suns. This book opens 100 doors into that scale, each is a strange but true fact that makes the sky feel less like a ceiling and more like a map you can read.You start with the nearest furnace, the Sun, a middle aged yellow dwarf that holds 99.8 % of the solar system's mass and turns 4 million tons ...

Ring and Asia Wilde's life is anything but ordinary. Some of their closest friends are endangered monkeys and rare birds. Instead of attending middle school, they accompany their parents (scientists who work to save endangered species) on adventures around the world. They spend more time climbing trees, tracking animal prints, and taking on three-hundred-pound anacondas than they do filling out worksheets. But a research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when the...

Roland Smith, the master of middle-grade adventure, returns with a new novel full of high-speed chases, secret identities, and a dangerous underground world.What waits Beneath?Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use emai...

From the New York Times-bestselling author, Roland Smith, comes a fascinating, fact-filled resource that explores how humans have introduced—on purpose and by accident—plants and animals to parts of the world where they were previously unknown. . .sometimes with disastrous results.Did you know that brown rats were brought to the United States in the eighteenth century on a ship from England? Or that thousands of exotic pets were released into the Florida E...

New York Times bestselling author Roland Smith delivers the next installment of his bestselling series, this time taking the Wildes on a Galapagos Islands adventure.Ring and Asia Wilde are back with another outdoor adventure! These siblings' life is anything but ordinary. Some of their closest friends are endangered monkeys and rare birds. Instead of attending middle school, the siblings accompany their parents (scientists who work to save endangered species) on tr...

A thrilling dystopic story from Roland Smith about how far people will go to survive -- perfect for fans of Dryand Distress Signal.On the morning of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, and planes are literally falling out of the sky. Henry's father was away from the family farm and he has not returned. It's worrisome as people descend into lawlessness.Four months later...

Book One of this thrilling middle-grade spy series finds Q and his new step-sister, Angela, traveling to Philadelphia as the first stop of the year-long concert tour for their parents' band, and Q discovers that not only is life with Anglea going to be better than he imagined, but also much, much more dangerous.Thirteen-year-old Quest (Q) isn't sure he's ready for a new family. For a long time it's just been him and his mom, Blaze. But everything changes w...

The 5s Pocket Guide is designed to enhance awareness of the principles behind the 5s System and identify its impact on improving efficiency and promoting a safe working environment. Using a condensed format, it outlines a disciplined methodology for implementing 5s, organized around a six-step method.The six step method:Planning a course of actionEducating the work groupEvaluating the work areaInitiating ...

A little yellow duck is hungry and looks for its breakfast. While it is searching for something to eat, it meets some of its friends and asks them to help it find something tasty to eat, Its friend aren't much help as they have either already eaten their own breakfasts or have a different idea of what would be a suitable meal, so it solves the problem on its own.

This is a story that I used to tell to my grandchildren until they got too old to believe it any more. It gave us some fun at the time and I would even play the Bogle songs on a guitar or using a computer to generate a "bogle organ" sound.The story is based on the idea that our highly washed and fragrant offspring could not possible be responsible for the naughty things they seem to do and that there must be some other, more sinister, agency involved. It is suggested that the bogles...

What dangers lurk above?Pat O'Toole and his brother, Coop, are on the run from an enemy that specializes in hiding in plain sight. Along with their new companion, Kate, they've narrowly escaped a cultlike community situated beneath the streets of New York City. Kate has lived underground since birth, and the world above thrills her, but it's treacherous as well. With the cult's leader -- Kate's grandfather -- hatching a new scheme of global consequence, the three runaways may be th...