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Cool Stuff You Need to Know

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Have you ever been excited to find out you knew something the other kids in your class didn't? Then just think about how you would feel if you knew hundreds of fascinating tidbits-on everything from art, literature, and history to geography, science, and math-from just one quick-and-easy read crammed with fun and cool stuff you shouldn't have to wait to find out about. With I Wish I Knew That you will speed through science, whiz through history, and take a dip into the classic Greek and Roman myths in no time at all. Inside, learn all about...
  • Classic Reads: A guide to classic children's literature such as Call of The Wild, Anne of Green Gables, The Wind in The Willows, Little Women and Shakespeare.
  • How Land is Shaped and Changed: Erosion, Glaciers, Volcanoes and the world's tallest mountain, largest sea, and longest river.
  • Math Stuff: Jump Into Geometry by learning that the three points of a triangle, whose angles always add up to 180º make measuring more precise.
  • Science at a Glance: The Periodic table which was invented by Dmitri Mendeleyev and beginners' Biology
  • History Stuff: Early explorers, important wars, all the Presidents and British Kings and Queens as well as the names of the countries and their capital cities.
  • Bonus sections include Poet's Corner, Brief History of Music, The World Of Art and Geological Time, In Brief

    • With I Wish I Knew That you'll boost your general knowledge and jump to the head of the class!

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      I Wish I Knew That

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    • Release date

      May 12, 2011

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        • ISBN: 9781606522981

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        • ISBN: 9781606522981
        • File size: 3714 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • School Library Journal

        December 1, 2011

        Gr 5-7-These two volumes pack a lot of facts into short page-counts but include quite a few problems as well. Much of the information in I Wish I Knew That is too basic or commonly known to entertain or impress, and is so superficial that it doesn't serve to educate. Brevity also breeds understatements, incomplete explanations, and sloppy summarizations. President Kennedy gets five sentences, and the last one is this: "However, on November 22, 1963, he was shot by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald while riding through Dallas, Texas, in an open-topped car." Write...Every Time has the potential for greater usefulness, but errors render it less than reliable. For instance, in the phrase "many people," "many" is mislabeled as an indefinite pronoun. In the sentence "The burglar goes up," the adverb is said to answer how rather than where. Needed examples are absent, and others, such as "My top could be being crumpled up since it's in a suitcase," are poorly written. The risks are many in serving up a lot of material in short order, and here they do not pay off.-Alyson Low, Fayetteville Public Library, AR

        Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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