Gillian Houghton – författare

Allow your readers to take a peek at what happens behind the doors and desks of our banking institutions. Your students won''t look at banks in the same way after learning about where and how our money is managed.

This book explores the ease of ATMs and cash exchanges. Your readers will learn how these exchanges occur and make our lives easier, while also discovering the importance of keeping track of spending.

The process of writing, using, and processing a check is explained in an approachable, entertaining way. Your readers will learn how to balance a checkbook and manage a checking account.

Credit cards make our monetary exchanges easier, but they have certain disadvantages and risks. Your future spenders will learn the inner workings of credit cards and credit debt.

It''s never too early to learn about setting personal limits. This book explains how to keep track of spending and how to create a budget that allows your readers to meet their needs and wants.

Your readers will learn the basis of our economic system. This book explains commodity needs and wants in an approachable way, empowering your students to learn how to prioritize their purchases and manage their spending.

The detailed illustrations and photographs in this fascinating book take us into the complicated, hectic world of the beehive, where we observe the rigidly structured “class system” of the honeybee, with its worker bees, drones, and queen. The complex body and internal systems of the bee are examined, as the history, honey production, construction of the honeycomb, reproduction, and colony building are discussed.

This unique book penetrates the myths surrounding the owl to reveal its true nature—a swift and deadly animal perfectly adapted to the task of nocturnal hunting. Using lavishly illustrated spreads, the book shows the various adaptations that make the owl such an efficient hunter—its rotating head, large forward-set eyes, feathered camouflage, sharp beak, and keen hearing. Also examined in brilliantly illustrated diagrams are the owl’s digestive, circulatory, reproductive, and skeletal systems.

This inviting book allows us to observe spiders close up, as they creatively hunt their prey, eat, spin intricate webs, reproduce, and lay their eggs. The many lavishly detailed illustrations and photographs offers an up-close look at the beauty of spiders from around the world, showing the systems that make web spinning, digesting, and egg laying possible. It is a stunning view of the complex artistry and delicate engineering behind spiders and their webs.

Did you know that the turtle’s top shell is an outgrowth of bone, and the scales on it are made of the same substance that forms our finger nails? Or that its nostrils are placed high on its head so that it can breathe without raising its head far above water? This fascinating book reveals these, and many little-known details about the turtle’s body, inner working, geographical adaptations, genealogy, history, and endangered future.

This fascinating look into American history uncovers how some of our ancestors came to the United States, seeking freedom and fortune, and often risking everything to make a home in America. This resource tells the story of the immigrant history of the United States, using documents and photographs from the heyday of one of the most important immigration ports. The history of Ellis Island is revealed to be one of grit, misfortune, and luck that is both true of the island and of the people it welcomed.

Before the merging of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, traveling West was a perilous, time-consuming endeavor. Native Americans hunted vast herds of buffalo across the plains and a few hardy pioneers lived in scattered, isolated settlements. The construction of the transcontinental railroad would change all that, opening up the means for coast-to-coast travel, boosting private enterprise, and nearly destroying Native Americans for good. A feat of engineering genius and human endeavor, this timely volume illuminates the hardships, accomplishments, greed, and racial conflicts of one of America''s greatest achievements.