Electricity at Work

K-Gr 2—Geared toward young readers, this series attempts to simplify science concepts with an emphasis on how they apply to daily life. Electricity, temperature, and light will be relatively familiar concepts for the audience while mass, magnetism, and the elements may be new. The page layouts feature one to three sentences per page and a bright photo. The text provides brief facts, some of which elucidate the topic while others are supplementary. For instance, that elements "are the simplest forms of something" is helpful, while the fact that Dmitri Mendeleyev sorted them into a table is probably not useful information for this age group. Other examples of scientists who appear include Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton. There are a few oversimplifications, such as the statement that magnetism is "found in some metals."