Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, are becoming increasingly rare in the wild. They have distinctive blazes on their chests that resemble the crescent moon. Follow one moon bear in the wild as she eats, plays, hibernates, and wakes up again in the spring.

Takes a journey through a rain forest, investigating the plants and animals that dwell there.

Text and color illustrations introduce frogs and their vital role in environmental balance in places all over the world.

Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers.

Natural and manmade disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes such as the great Chicago fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and hurricane Katrina, Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations...

Presents various accounts of mummies found throughout North America and what these bodies reveal about the times in which they lived.

Nonfiction accounts of ships that sank inexplicably, and other mysterious maritime occurrences.

"Explores the stories of six famous missing-person cases." --