101 Things You Need to Know

by Julie Mullarkey-Gnoy

What's the difference between heat and temperature? Who was our twenty-sixth president? How do you figure out the circumference of a circle? Who made the first national flag? What is a bar graph? Where do you place the colon in a business letter? Why do earthquakes happen?

101 Things you need to The answer book for school survival is a quick and easy to explore reference packed with answers to your questions!

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Childrens, Science, School

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

Reviews

[Christopher Hicks]

This was a fun little book full of interesting facts. I learned a couple things i'd never heard of and was reminded of a few things I had learned as a child but hadn't thought of in years.

[J]

This reference book for children with the basics was definitely an okay book, which brought back to me the things that I had learned as a child. As such there is one or two items in there that are certainly outdated although you won't hear me complain about them including Pluto still as a planet.

The book is presented in a simple format in providing the fact number, a bold title if you could call it that and then giving just a small sentence or paragraph to provide the student using the book more information. There are also plenty of simplistic and non-colored pictures in some cases that allow the readers to see what is being told them whether as graphs, illustrations or models.

All in all it is a good little book to have for a quick reference guide with the rest of the information that can be found within its pages.

[Cassidy]

A handy little book with all kinds of crazy factoids in there. Well organized, clear, and simple.

[Ally]

I learned the cooooolest thing in this book!

LASER is actually an acronym. It stands for: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Isn't that awesome?????

[Angela Corral]

This was a quick interesting book. Learned all kinds of fun facts.

[Amanda]

This book was really boring. There was a couple interesting facts, like what other countries had as their currency.

Mostly this was stuff I already knew. This book tells things like the difference between heat and temperature, how to convert celsies and farenhight. One Hundred and One things you need to know also tells you about a lot of landforms, and water.

[Mykey]

This is a fun book to bring to a family party because it is a good conversation starter. The acronym for LASER can easily lead to an interesting conversation about acronyms.

As Ally (2010) mentioned in her review, LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

[Rebecca Pham]

INTERESTING

[Patricia]

I borrowed this from my son to see what kinds of things I needed to know that I didn't already know. Very informative and a great little reference book.

[Hoa Nguyen]

I already learned 2/3 of what the book mentioned, but learning the other portion seems interesting.

[Jas]

My fourth gradee teacher gave our class this because she didn't need it anymore

[Mariah]

Average book with facts that are mostly right. Of course, in 2016, some of this book is already outdated. But I think that this would be an interesting read for someone in fifth grade or so.