The Ultimate Encyclopedia of 'Why?' for Teens

Full Color. Fully Illustrated. 202 Amazing Questions, Answered for Real. Zero Too Boring Young-Kid Stuff.WHAT’S INSIDE - 202 questions answered in full across the body, the brain, animals, space, Earth, history, everyday science, tech and more! 211 full-color, illustrated pages.A GIFT THEY’LL ACTUALLY OPEN - and keep reaching for long after.Written by best-selling author Emily Carter and the team behind the Life Skill Handbooks Series. Fully fact-checked.Your teen can scroll for an hour and not remember a single thing they saw. The video ends, the next one starts, and the curiosity that used to fill the dinner table gets spent on a feed.That isn’t laziness, and it isn’t your parenting. The feed was engineered to be hard to put down. A skimming brain doesn’t need another lecture. It needs a question good enough to make it stop and think.Most 'why' books for teens hand over the headline and a one-sentence explanation (and not even any pictures!), then move on. This one really explains the why: the mechanism, the history, the part that makes it finally click. And when scientists still don’t know (why we hiccup, for one), it says so instead of making something up.Eight chapters. 39 sections. A few of the 202:Your body - Why does your voice crack? Why can some people taste cilantro as soap?Wild things - How can a fungus turn an ant into a zombie? Why can crows recognize human faces?Space - How can a teaspoon of neutron-star material weigh billions of tons? What is a rogue planet?Planet Earth - Can lightning really shoot upward? What is the 'Door to Hell'?Inside your head - Why can one negative comment feel stronger than ten compliments? Why do we dream?History - Did a war really start because someone killed a pig? Did a giant wave of molasses really flood Boston?Everyday science - Why was bubble wrap originally invented as wallpaper? Why is ice slippery?Tech and the future - Why is AI incredible at some things and terrible at others? Will robots take everyone’s jobs?Zero filler. Nothing they outgrew in fourth grade. Emily has spent more than a decade working directly with teens, so it talks to a 14-year-old like someone who can handle the real answer, and it goes where teens quietly wonder, from acne to peer pressure, with respect instead of embarrassment.Every answer stands on its own and reads in a couple of minutes. Read it cover to cover or open any page. Quiz the family, settle an argument with a friend, or be the one in class who actually knows.Made for curious teens ages 12 to 16, and for the parents, grandparents and teachers shopping for one. A birthday or holiday gift that doesn’t end up in a drawer.Worried they won’t read it? Each answer asks for the attention of a short video, and leaves something behind. Picture the dinner where they start with 'Wait, did you know...?'Curiosity is a muscle. Give them 202 reasons to use it.