Firefighter Tom shows everything that fire fighters do, from maintaining his equipment and rescuing people to fighting fires and riding in parades.

An alphabetic look at a firefighter's day.

When Thomas and Percy smell smoke, they know there is only one engine who can help, but they are unsure that Flynn can race to the rescue in time.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces firefighters to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--

Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs--without using prehistoric DNA. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds.

A paleontologist examines the importance of the way dinosaurs lived and may have died, the meaning of fossils, the nature of deep time, and humans? place in the world as the earth moves into an uncertain environmental future.

Which species should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. With limited resources available, we face tough choices about what to save. This timely book sets up a series of debates, pulling in case studies of plants and animals, from salmon vs seals to bees vs wasps to bison vs Siberian larch trees. There are many surprises....

"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company....

Photographs and simple text in English and Spanish describe the work done by firefighters.

"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...