Scott Forbes
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Tired of following other people's rules? Think you can do better? This title explains how to design a completely new nation from scratch: decide on the laws, choose your borders, make your flag, attract loyal citizens, and lots more. You'll get to create, organise, govern, and judge. Includes projects to complete and facts about the world's micronations.
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"As you read these pages, you'll speed through the 13.7 billion years that went into making the incredible, life-sustaining, one-in-a-billion planet we call home. You'll also learn about some of the amazing stuff that came about along the way: exploding supergiant stars, gassy planet burps, massive millipedes, ferocious dinosaurs and even a meteoric extinction. Are your ready? Let's get cooking!"--From the publisher's description.
10) Haunted homes
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Examines the origins of superstitions about the creepy creatures that haunt haunted houses, such as ghosts, poltergeists, and the night mare.
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Shows how the artist Henri Matisse used bold colors to create strikingly beautiful art. The story follows a colorless snail on a quest to find its own colors. After discovering a number of Matisse's paintings, the snail magically takes on a range of colors from the artworks. Matisse really did create an artwork called, The Snail. He made it in his old age, when he could no longer hold a paintbrush for long. Instead of painting a snail, he made a picture...