"Kids often play with magnets, yet they don't learn how these playthings work for many years. Practical knowledge from their play can help them learn more about magnetism--and so can this book! Specially written for those with reading challenges or readers looking for a review, the main text covers important vocabulary, magnetic fields, and a discussion of why metals and magnets come together. Diagrams and succinct fact boxes offer additional ways to learn each concept and explain some ideas in greater detail"-- Provided by publisher.

A great force -- Permanent, temporary -- From the atom up -- Big magnet -- Pole switch -- Field of safety -- Inside earth -- Electromagnetism -- MRI -- Magnets all around -- The basics of magnetism.