Secret treasures are buried all around us -you just have to look for them! Accidental Archaeologists takes you on an adventure through time to relive some of the coolest surprise discoveries by totally ordinary people all over the world. Meet: - The cowboy who found an ancient skeleton - A famous king buried underneath a parking lot - The team who found New York City's hidden African Burial Ground - A boy who finds the Dead Sea Scrolls while looking...

The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science-and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Michael Brooks investigates the new wave of radical insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery. Brooks takes us to the extreme frontiers of what we understand about the world....

In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.

Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend -- who might want to be something more. She also has a secret. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with...

Elementary readers will learn about space exploration as they read through this fascinating nonfiction title. Readers will learn about the sun, the planets in our solar system, comets, asteroids, constellations, different types of galaxies, and more about the vast body of the universe. Students will also be introduced to the Hubble Telescope and the Mars Rover. With vivid images, intriguing facts, informational text featuring Time For Kids© content,...

Fourteen year old Earl Wittcomb tries to help get money needed to pay the mortgage on the family farm by following his uncle into the Colorado Rockies to look for gold.

In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pick axe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich--or die trying. For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was his destiny--even...

Having arrived in California, Lee Westfall's magical power is growing and changing every day and may be enough, with help from her true friends, to stop her villainous Uncle Hiram when he kidnaps her and sends her deep into his gold mine.

Presents the history of the California Gold Rush and its role in the westward expansion of the United States.

A tale set in a world in which technological advances have been suppressed finds particle physicist Jon Grady helping to innovate a device capable of reflecting gravity only to be targeted by a shadowy organization from the future.