Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 264-265) and index.

Ch.1: There's no place like home! (Our rocky world, What is a rock?, Stacking stones, Much ado about minerals, Some really classy crystals, Ancient artwork) -- Ch.2: Earth is rockin' (Dynamic planet, Getting the inside story, Shaking all over, Do you know your faults?, Thar she blows!, Majestic magma mountains, Big happenings under the sea, A rip in the ocean floor, Drifting continents and shifting plates, All cracked up!, Onward and upward, Weathering away, The world down below, Big MACs impact Earth) -- Ch.3: The life and death of rocks (Some like it hot, Rocky transformers, Tearing down and building back up, Unreal landscapes, Fantastic fossils, Forward into the past, What goes around comes around, Gearing up) -- Ch. 4: Smokin' hot: igneous rocks (Getting the scoop on igneous rocks, The devil is in the details, Granite, Diorite, Gabbro, Lots of lava, Obsidian, Pumice, Extusive exclusive!, Rock-solid heads of state) -- Ch 5: Masters of change: metamorphic rocks (The squeeze on metamorphic rocks, White gold from Italy, Marble, Quartzite, Amphibolite, Pressure cooker, Hornfels, Soapstone, One magnificent metamorphic mountain) -- Ch 6: Reassembled rocks: sedimentary rocks (Digging on sedimentary rocks, Rockin' cotton castles, Limestone, Chalk, Time to make the beds, A range of rocks, Discovering dinosaurs, Chert & Flint, The grandest of all canyons) -- Ch 7: The building blocks of rocks (Breaking down some mineral properties, Welcome to the class, Native sulfur, Native gold, The rush is on!, Native silver, Native and rare, Native copper, Diamond, Digging up diamonds, Danger! Toxic rocks ahead, Galena, Pyrite, Marcasite, Super sulfides!, Corundum, Hard-nosed gemstones, Spinel, Magnetite, Metalmaking minerals, Limonite/Goethite, Uraninite, Chrysoberyl, Some really cool crystals, Salt of the earth, Halite, Fluorite, Calcite, Some seriously classy carbonates!, Dolomite, Borax, Turquoise, Gypsum, Cave of the crystals, Super silicates!, Quartz, Nature's surprise packages, Opal, Phenomenal feldspars!, Cooking up some feldspathoids, Marvelous Micas!, The serpentine group, Talc, Born to be beautiful, Powerful pyroxenes!, Jadeite, Awesome amphiboles!, Beryl, Tourmaline family, Olivine, Zircon, Topaz, Magical metamorphic minerals!, A gaggle of garnets, Frozen in stone, Wonders from down under) -- Ch 8: Rockin' resources (Rock around the block, Rockin' resources from around the world, Mock rocks, Thar be fossils in this fuel!, Rockreation, Meet a geologist)

Ages 7-10. National Geographic Kids.

Grades 2-3. National Geographic Kids.