The Secret of the Circle-K Cave (Science Solves It!) - Softcover

Hays, Anna Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575651890 ISBN 13: 9781575651897

Publisher: Astra Publishing House, 2006

Synopsis

Magic Streams! Secret Caves! The Summer excitement is just beginning!

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Jane Hays has written and co-edited numerous books for young children, including several Step into Reading Phonics Readers. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

From Booklist:

Gr. 2-4, younger for reading aloud. Like other books in the fictional Science Solves It series, this wraps a mystery around basic science concepts. Rick is thrilled to visit his aunt, uncle, and cousins in New Mexico, where they live on Circle-K Ranch. While out exploring, the kids come across a cave. Ranch-hand Charley offers to lead a spelunking tour. Underground, the group encounters not only natural beauty but also the missing clues to an unsolved, nineteenth-century bank robbery, and Rick and his cousins are made deputy sheriffs in honor of their discovery. Although the story will work well as a read-aloud to younger children, the pace and vocabulary are appropriate for new readers, who will look to the appealing pencil-and-watercolor pictures for textual clues. Small text boxes expand on the science concepts, such as cave formations and bats' habits, mentioned in the story. A final page offers a few questions and activities that encourage kids to "think like a scientist." Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Astra Publishing House
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1575651890
• ISBN 13: 9781575651897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Smath Jerry