With simple instructions and very little preparation, sixty hands-on activities that help answer such questions as what gives soda its fizz, why do some things float and other sink, and how to find out whether an egg is hard-boiled without breaking its shell.Experiments using ordinary household objects explore the properties of water, motion, gravity, the human body, and other natural phenomena
Best selling author and expert on all things that go bump in the night, Q. L. Pearce began her career as a writer and editor in 1985 with Lowell House / Roxbury Press in Los Angeles. She has since written more than one hundred and twenty books for children, including eight collections of scary stories for middle grade and film tie-in books for the Fox animated film Titan AE and the Universal animated series Land Before Time. Q believes strongly in the value of scary books for young readers. When asked what credentials she has which qualify her as an expert in this area she replies, "I was a child once. That was very scary."