Screws Keep Things Secure: Simple Machines for Kids (Picture Book Science) Michael Schaller author of Stumbling on Happiness

author of Stumbling on Happiness “Encouraged me to persevere through many moments when it felt far easier to stop trying

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from the earliest prehistoric domestication of goats and sheep to the present

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Screws Keep Things Secure: Simple Machines for Kids (Picture Book Science) Michael Schaller author of Stumbling on Happiness*Selected as a "recommended title" by the Kansas National Education Association's Reading Circle Commission Learn how simple machines make work easier in these colorful nonfiction picture books all about science and engineering! If you were building a tree house, what could you use to keep the boards together? You could use nails, but you might also use screws. Screws are one of the simple machines that are designed to make different kinds of work