Salt
From the Series 21st Century Skills Library
You eat salt everyday, but did you know that only 20% of the world's salt is consumed as food? Read this book to learn more about how salt is harvested, its other uses, and why wars have been fought over this common, yet important, mineral.
- There's More to Salt Than Meets the Fries
- Please Pass the Salt!
- Har vesting the Salt of the Earth
- Roadblocks to Salt
- Salt in Your Future
- Map
- Glossary
- For More Information
- Index
- About the Author
Interest Level | Grade 4 - Grade 8 |
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Reading Level | Grade 6 |
Copyright | 2008 |
BISACS | JNF010000, JNF051120 |
Publisher | Cherry Lake Publishing |
Series | Racial Justice in America: Excellence and Achievement: 21st Century Skills Library |
Language | English |
Number of Pages | 32 |
ISBN | 9781602791206 |
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Title Format | Reinforced book |
Release Date | 2008-01-01 |
Author | Nancy Robinson Masters |
Features | Author/Illustrator biography, Glossary of key words, Index, Informative sidebars, Sources for further research, Table of contents |
Dewey | 553.6'32 |
Dimensions | 7.5 x 9.5 |
ATOS Reading Level | 6.1 |
Accelerated Reader® Quiz | 120816 |
Accelerated Reader® Points | 1.0 |
Author: Nancy Robinson Masters
Nancy Robinson Masters has been wearing jeans all of her life. Nancy grew up on a cotton farm in West Texas where she learned to drive a tractor before she learned to drive a car. She is an award-winning author of 18 books and hundreds of stories and articles. “That old tractor started me on journeys that have taken me around the world. Everywhere I‘ve been, including Antarctica as a guest of the National Science foundation, I‘ve met people wearing jeans!â€