Simple text and full-color photos explain how caves form and why they are an important landform.

"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics and geographic locations of caves"--Provided by publisher.

"When seventeen-year-old senator's son Grant Tavish is involved in a fatal accident, all he wants to do is face the consequences of what he's done. But those consequences never come, even if headlines of "affluenza" do. The truth soon becomes clear: due to his father's connections, Grant is going to get away with murder. As a family tradition approaches, a cave excursion on the Appalackian Trail, Grant seizes the opportunity to take justice into his...

Presents the stories of a variety of explorers who have explored caves and cave systems from around the world, offering photographs of each cave and a discussion of what each explorer discovered inside their caves, such as the explorers who discovered the deepest known cave on Earth to date.

High school seniors Maddy and Owen must rely on their love when an evil creature, who has murdered before, kidnaps Maddy's mother and takes her to his cave.

This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find the deepest cave on Earth, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong. Tabor focuses particularly on the heroic efforts of Bill Stone in the vast Cheve Cave of southern Mexico and Alexander Klimchouk in the supercave Krubera of the Republic of Georgia.

From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress...

"After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during the last ice age in an effort to survive"-- Provided by publisher.