PROTISTS

Protists

By Steve Parker

Compass Points Books, 2010

Kingdom Classification series

ISBN # 9780756542245

Grades 5-9

Nonfiction

"Although protists are almost everywhere you look, you cannot see them. They are mostly microscopic life-forms, each made of one living unit called a cell. Some protists are like tiny animals because they take in or eat food. Other protists, the protophytans, are like tiny plants because they use the sun's light energy to grow. Some protists have traits of both plants and...