Description: Rocks and Minerals: Get the Dirt on Geology offers middle schoolers a chance to look under the hood of our planet and explore the forces that have shaped--and continue to shape--our world. Learn how the earth transformed from a ball of dust and gases to the planet we know today and discover how the earth continues to change through plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, and even wind and water!
Brief description: Alexis Cornell is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Alexis has illustrated several books for Nomad Press, including Big Data: Information in the Digital World with Science Activities for Kids, Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids, Feminism: The March Toward Equal Rights for Women, and Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: Praise for other Earth science books in the Inquire and Investigate series
Planetary Science
National Science Teachers Association Recommends
" . . . This book from the Inquire & Investigate series from Nomad Press is directed at the middle grades, and combines easy to read text with color diagrams and photographs. In short comic strips (two or three per chapter) the book provides a tour of the solar system led by Dr. Fathima Abadi, a female astronomer. It's encouraging to find a book that depicts a woman scientist as its guide without drawing attention to her gender..."