Ruby Sisson Library

Describes the physiology, habits, and behavior of snakes.

Describes the weather conditions that produce storms and the damage that can be done by rain, snow, wind, dust, ice, thunder, lightning, and hail.

Briefly discusses the techniques and tools archaeologists use to locate and study artifacts from the past and highlights milestones in the history of archaeology.

A primary level introduction to farming--its history, kinds of farms, methods and machinery, and what farmers do.

Briefly discusses different types of maps and globes and explains such map-related terms as symbol, key, direction, and scale.

Briefly describes how ponds are formed and examines the plant and animal life these small bodies of still water support.

Briefly discusses the history and uses of automatically operating devices from mechanical toys through dishwashers and clock radios to cyborgs and manipulators.

Discusses what causes volcanoes, where they are likely to occur, and how scientists study them.

Discusses various endangered animal species in the world, why and how they become endangered, and what can be done to save them.

Discusses the reasons people had for going to live in newly-discovered or newly-settled lands, as the American West of the nineteenth century, the hardships they faced, and their influence on history.