West Routt Library District

Photographs and text examine different types of shells, including seashells, eggshells, and fossil shells, focusing on such aspects as how shells camouflage themselves and how they may be collected.

Includes activity cards, vocabulary cards, fact sheet, wooden stand, Stop watch and various items related to Force & Matter

It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name -- yellow fever -- but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure. This powerful, dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. The medical beliefs and practices of the time and the conditions that helped the disease...

Celebrates a child's love of the sun and the wonderous ways in which it helps the earth and the life upon it.

Photographs and descriptive text provide information on the people, cities, culture, food and drink, trade, gods and goddesses, clothes, sports and games, and other aspects of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.

Color photographs and simple text introduce bats, including how they fly, hunt, roost, and care for their young.

A U.S. pilot who was shot down over Bosnia describes how he evaded capture and survived in enemy territory.

Provides an in-depth and comprehensive portrait of the state of Colorado, including its history, people, land, economy, and government.