title: Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean (National Geographic Kids)
author:  Bradley Hague 
description: Life in the depths of the ocean, where no light exists? In 1977, scientists made their first discovery of black smokershydrothermal vents that spew mineral-laden steam into the ocean. They were surprised to find live sea creatures, such as red-and-white tubeworms and giant clams, teeming around these vents. As with so many other major discoveries, this early exploration wasnt undertaken to find vents; rather, scientists were conducting examinations of the earths plates. Using bold underwater photographs, maps, diagrams, text boxes, and an engaging narrative, the book takes readers along on the 2011 exploration of vents in the Galpagos Reef area of the Pacific Ocean. From page 1, future scientists will be hooked by the excitement of finding newly developing vents and the disappointment of finding older vents that once disappeared under layers of magma. The book is a companion to the five-part National Geographic TV special Alien Deep. Grades 4-7. --J. B. Petty
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  Contents
  
  
  VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
  
  
  Somewhere in the fabled region called Forwards lay the answers to a 400-year-
  old secret: Who were they? Where did they come from? Where were they going?
  
  
  But Forwards was far away, through lands of unimaginable horror. And the
  answers they sought were the jealously guarded secret of the mysterious
  Unknowns—a secret so hideous that even those superior beings dared not reveal
  it ... ' Other SIGNET Science Fiction
  
  
  THE LONG AFTERNOON OF EARTH by Brian Aldiss The nightmarish story of a handful
  of people trying to survive the death throes of an Earth which has stopped
  rotating. (#D2018—50{) JOURNEY BEYOND TOMORROW by Robert Sheckley
  
  
  Barbed and brilliant science fiction about a South Sea Islander who finds
  himself in an insane 21st century America.
  
  
  (#D2223—50{)
  
  
  THE BLACK CLOUD by Fred Hoyle
  
  
  Man fights for survival against a strange black substance which invades the
  earth's atmosphere.
  
  
  (#D2202—50f)
  
  
  METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN by Robe