Section 1: Acquiring Reading Skills
Unit 1 Everyday Inventions: The Wonder of Human Ingenuity
Unit 2 Disaster Response 101: Preparing for the Worst
Unit 3 Nutrition Tips to Take with a Grain of Salt
Unit 4 Savant Syndrome: Islands of Ability
Unit 5 The Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll
Unit 6 Beyoncé: Fierce and Flawless
Unit 7 Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin
Unit 8 Three English Romantic Poets
Section 2: Putting the Skills to Practice
1. Art Formed in Fire
2. When News Is Not News
3. Yayoi Kusama: Turning Illness into Art
4. Bioplastic: Not So Green
5. Disposable Consumer Culture
6. Processed Foods: A Blessing or a Curse?
7. Shaking Up the Spice Trade
8. Space Junk: An Orbiting Problem
9. Caution: Cheerleading Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
10. A Fondness for Dublin
11. The Downside of Crowdsourcing
12. The Unexpected Consequences of Antibiotics
13. Creepy Castles and Royal Ruins: Exploring Britain’s Architectural Treasures
14. Dealing with Anger: To Bottle or to Burst?
15. Digital Hoarders—Swimming in a Sea of Files
16. The Kidult Phenomenon
17. Selfie on a Stick
18. Food Trucks: Restaurants on a Roll
19. Winter Fun in Australia’s Blue Mountains
20. Antarctica under Threat
21. Cotton Candy: From Sweet Smiles to Medical Miracles
22. The Dark Side of Beauty
23. The Real Alice’s Wonderland
24. Sicily—The Heart of the Mediterranean
25. Why Men and Women React Differently to Pressure
26. The Roots of Fairy Tales
27. Chocolate Culture in Belgium
28. A New Era in Genome Editing
29. The Dawn of the Automobile
30. Famous Cakes and Where They Come From
31. Nightmares: Their Origins and Meanings
32. The Real Threat of Fake News
33. The Benefits of Wanderlust
34. Harry Potter: A Classic Built on the Classics
35. Bitter Medicine: The Surprising Medical Treatments of the Past
36. The Historical Regatta: A Colorful Festival in Venice
37. Wimbledon: A History of Tradition and Transformation
38. National Parks: America’s Treasures
39. Cuba, Where Variety Spices Up Life
40. Fortune-Telling: Fact or Fiction?
41. The Street Store Allowing the Homeless to Shop with Pride
42. Get Out of My Space!
43. Yesterday’s Technology Makes a Comeback
44. Plastic Microbeads: Small Beads, Big Problems
45. No Joke! Animals Can Laugh
46. How Many Colors Do You See?
47. Salty Soil: A Problem of Progress
48. Camouflage Is In Fashion
49. Punctuation Evolved
50. Controversial Foods
51. The World’s Strangest Natural Phenomena
52. A Matter of Manners
