Salt

From the Series 21st Century Skills Library
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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
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
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!”

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