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: Chris Eboch is the author of more than 60 books for children, including nonfiction and fiction, early reader through teen. Recent nonfiction titles, published under the name M. M. Eboch, include Mechanical Engineering in the Real World, World War I Battlefield Medicine, Transportation Technology, Geothermal Energy and Wind Energy. Chris has her M.A. in Professional Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. She lives in New Mexico with her husband and their ferrets.
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..."