Title from box. Teacher's resource: senior author, Jennette MacKenzie.

MYSTERY (1-4) The snack shack mystery-- Who stole grandma's pie?-- What happened to Peter-- Stalling; HUMAN BODY (5-8) Food factory-- Video pills... Bacteria!-- Your new ID; EARLY CIVILIZATIONS (9-12) Growing up in the Mali Empire-- The mystery of the Indus Valley civilization-- The samurai of ancient Japan-- Mesopotamia: A Land Between Two Rivers; MAKING CHOICES (13-16) Start your day with breakfast-- The problem with cliques-- The salty truth-- Energy to burn; 17. HISTORICAL FICTION (17-20) The white stone in the castle wall-- The journal of Rosie Marie Smithson-- Two dollars-- Boy of the deeps; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY (21-24) Green machines-- The winds of change-- Riding the sun-- Zoo doo: waste or resource?; CITIZENSHIP AND GOVERNMENT (25-28) Tour time on Parliament Hill-- Ground breaker-- A week with a Member of Parliament-- Governments working together; PROPERTIES OF MATTER (29-32) Mighty metals-- Go, gases, go!-- Can liquids break rules? -- Amazing materials; HUMOR (33-36) My neighbour's dog is purple-- The wise men of Chelm and the rock-- Sisterlist-- Little Red, the Hood; FORCES ACTING ON STRUCTURES (37-40) A house of cards-- The extreme zone-- Eiffel's beautiful monstrosity-- Round and Round: Carousels and Ferris Wheels ; MAKING A DIFFERENCE (41-44) Caring for the community-- Hopping to the rescue-- It takes a village-- Not your average boy; NATURAL FORCES (45-48) Volcanoes!-- Joseph, John and hurricane Kathrina-- Tsunami alert!-- Wildfires and floods, oh my!.