It's the revolutionary science study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace Science ... takes readers from scientific investigation and the engineering design process to the Periodic Table, forces and motion, forms of energy, outer space and the solar system, to earth sciences, biology, body systems, ecology, and more.

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