It's summer. School's out. And it's time to pile into the car for a family trip. From Brain Quest, America's #1 educational bestseller with over 18 million copies in print, here is the totally revised and updated BRAIN QUEST EXTRA FOR THE CAR, an all-America marriage of geography, culture and customs, and backseat travel games. The two decks contain Q&A cards about each state of the Union and Washington, D.C., as well as general information Q&A cards. The decks also include fun games for two or more kids to play, such as Destination, a traveling game in which kids get from a starting point to a destination by answering questions about each state in between. A full-featured box of intelligent fun, BRAIN QUEST EXTRA FOR THE CAR will keep kids entertained-for trips of one hour or ten. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Scholastic Book Clubs, and Newbridge Book Club. Suitable for ages 7-12. 790,000 copies in print.

Brain Quest just keeps getting smarter! Brain Quest For the Car has been thoroughly updated with fresh and appealing designs for the cards and revised content—that's hundreds of brand-new questions. Drawn from first-through sixth-grade curricula, the material aligns with state and national standards and is vetted by an award-winning teacher. For the Car makes every trip—in a car, bus, train, or plane—a learning adventure with 1,100 questions all about America, from the O.K. Corral to Dr. Seuss, state capitals to Mount Rushmore. And it's better than ever. The decks are no longer organized by state, and the cards are marked with letters and numbers to be used in backseat games based on license plates, I Spy, and more. Brain Quest proves it's not just fun to be smart—it's smart to be smart.

This marriage of geography, culture and customs, and backseat travel games is the smartest way for kids ages 7-12 to have fun on any car trip longer than a jaunt to the mall. Two decks of cards contain very real questions about America--its people, places, nature, and regional history. Three-color illustrations throughout. Scorepad & pencil.

Brain Quest just keeps getting smarter! Brain Quest For the Car has been thoroughly updated with fresh and appealing designs for the cards and revised content—that’s hundreds of brand-new questions. Drawn from first-through sixth-grade curricula, the material aligns with state and national standards and is vetted by an award-winning teacher. For the Car makes every trip—in a car, bus, train, or plane—a learning adventure with 1,100 questions all about America, from the O.K. Corral to Dr. Seuss, state capitals to Mount Rushmore. And it’s better than ever. The decks are no longer organized by state, and the cards are marked with letters and numbers to be used in backseat games based on license plates, I Spy, and more. Brain Quest proves it’s not just fun to be smart—it’s smart to be smart.

Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Grade 3 Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes spelling and vocabulary, parts of speech, reading comprehension, odds and evens, magic squares, multiplication tables, Brain Boxes, and much more.

Fun to look at, fun to hold, fun to read, and fun to play, this early childhood edition takes Brain Quest away from the strict question-and-answer format. Instead, subject matter is covered on side one of the card, and the cards are read consecutively, like a series of little books. But when parents and children turn the cards over to side two, they'll find mazes, mix-and-match games, puzzles to solve, circles to draw in, and other activities pertaining to each subject. In CARS & TRUCKS, preschoolers learn that the fire engine is read and has ladders and hoses, that police cars are equipped with sirens and flashing lights, and that an ambulance is like a little hospital on wheels. For ages 1-4

Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Grade 4 Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes language arts, word searches and crosswords, idea clusters, multiplication and division, story problems, geometry, graphs, time lines, Brain Boxes, and much more.

Stop summer slide, stay summer smart! From the creators of America’s #1 educational bestseller Brain Quest comes Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2—a workbook, a game, and an outdoor adventure! It’s an interactive and personalized quest to keep kids excited about learning all summer long between 1st and 2nd grades. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 begins with a map that guides you through a workbook filled with activities based on reading comprehension, writing, addition and subtraction, earth science, the seasons, telling time, and more! As you complete activities, you earn stickers to track your progress on the map. Jam-packed with curriculum-based exercises, bonus challenges, outside activities, over 150 stickers, a summer reading list, and a Brain Quest mini deck, Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 covers the core concepts in English language arts, math, science, and social studies so kids keep essential skills sharp all summer.

Brain Thief is a fun, literate speculative fiction adventure, sort of New England cyberpunk noir, set a year or ten from now, somewhere between the Berkshires and Boston, and includes, at no extra charge, a 30-foot-tall fiberglass cowgirl. Bernal Haydon-Rumi, executive assistant to a funder of eccentric projects, drops by his boss's house on the way home from a business trip. By the next morning, he's been knocked out, his wealthy socialite boss Muriel has stolen a car and vanished, and the AI designed for planetary exploration that she's been funding turns out to be odder than it should be. In figuring out what's going on, Bernal has to deal with an anti-AI activist toting a handmade electronic arsenal, a local serial killer, a drug dealer with a business problem, a cryonic therapist stalked by past mistakes—and someone who specifically wants Bernal dead. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle. In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit. Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.