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Amazing Potato, The |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Meltzer, Milton | Illustrator: |
| Title: Amazing Potato, The | Date: 1992 |
| Publisher: HarperCollins | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-06-020806-6 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction, reference | |
GED Descriptor(s): social studies| science |
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Summary: |
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| A wonderful example of thematic writing, this book about the potato includes everything you want to know--and then some. The photographs, fact boxes, sketches, annotated bibliography, index, and interestingly written text produce a self-contained integrated curriculum. | |
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| Read in its entirety, the book provides material for small groups to investigate the history, geography, botany, and even math of potatoes. Using the bibliography, index, and author's introduction, a class could easily pursue a unit on the process of research. Also the book makes a companion volume to Ventura's Food. | |
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