Julie the Rockhound (Paperback)

When a young girl finds a sparkly rock buried in the dirt and discovers that it cleans to a beautiful quartz crystal, she is fascinated and becomes Julie the Rockhound. Join Julie as her dad shows her how to dig for minerals and explains the wonders of crystal formation. Combining clever wordplay with earth science, young readers learn about Earth's most abundant mineral "treasure." The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Plant, Animal, or Mineral? (A matching activity), Sorting It All Out (Classifying minerals), Moh's Hardness Scale, Three types of rocs and how they are made, Edible "Rocks," and steps to become your own Rockhound. Additional teaching activities and interactive quizzes are available at the Sylvan Dell Publishing website.