How Electricity Gets from Power Plants to Homes

by Megan Cooley Peterson

Overview

Curious readers want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand text explains how electricity travels from power plants to homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496649843
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Here to There
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	25 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Megan Cooley Peterson is a children's book author and editor. Her book How To Build Hair-Raising Haunted Houses (Capstone Press, 2011) was selected as a Book of Note by the TriState Young Adult Review Committee. When not writing, Megan enjoys movies, books, and all things Halloween. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and daughter.

Table of Contents

Where electricity comes from — How electricity moves — Electricity at home — Saving electricity.

Interviews

photo labels, full-color photographs, glossary, index

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2016
PreS-Gr 1—The focus is on transport in these reasonably accurate, highly simplified travelogues. Illustrated with big, bright color photos, Electricity follows the juice from a (nuclear) power plant to a light bulb, and Food tracks the ingredients in a bowl of breakfast cereal. Smaller inset photos supply bits of additional detail, and along with short resource lists and glossaries, each volume ends with two or three Common Core-linked study questions such as "What might happen if there were no plumbers?" Most titles end by urging readers to cut down on consumption, but disappointingly fail to mention why that would be a good idea. Still, these books will leave younger readers more aware of the infrastructures that support their daily routines while serving to kick off discussions about recycling and environmental issues. VERDICT Will be popular with curious newly independent readers.

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