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What Is Sight?
From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Your Amazing Senses
A green frog. An orange Popsicle. A flashing “walk” sign. Your eyes let you see everything around you. But how do your eyes work? And how does your sense of sight help you? Read this book to… Read More →
What Is Smell?
From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Your Amazing Senses
The sweet smell of roses. The rotten smell of garbage. Your nose lets you smell these scents and more. But how does your nose work? And how does your sense of smell help you? Read this book… Read More →
What Is Taste?
From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Your Amazing Senses
Salty popcorn. Sweet watermelon. Your tongue lets you taste these things and more. But how does your sense of taste work? And how does it help you? Read this book to find out! Learn all about Read More →
What Is Today's Weather?
From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Let's Watch the Weather
Is it rainy? Cloudy? Stormy? Readers will learn the ins and outs of observing weather conditions in this book. Accessible text and appealing photos show the different weather conditions and… Read More →
What Is Touch?
From the Series Lightning Bolt Books ® — Your Amazing Senses
A furry dog. A scaly lizard. Your sense of touch lets you feel these things and more. But how does your sense of touch work? And how does it help you? Read this book to find out! Learn all… Read More →
What Keeps Your Body Working?: Questions about Circulation, Blood, Germs, and More
From the Series The Inquisitive Kid's Guide to the Human Body
How Does Your Heart Beat? is a fantastic introduction to the incredible ways that our body keeps us alive. The respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems are explained through hilarious,… Read More →
What Makes a Building Strong?
From the Series Space Cat Explores STEM
Space Cat is curious about how tools, technology, and engineering are used to keep buildings and structures from falling down. Read More →
What Polar Bears Do
From the Series Let's Look at Polar Animals (Pull Ahead Readers — Nonfiction)
Polar bears know how to survive in their polar environments. Leveled text and exciting photographs help young readers learn about how these bears live in the cold. Pairs with the fiction… Read More →
What's in Your Guts?: Questions about Digestion, Food, Farts, and More
From the Series The Inquisitive Kid's Guide to the Human Body
What's in Your Guts? is a fantastic introduction to the science behind the human digestive system for young kids. Hilarious, colorful illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format Read More →
What's So Scary about Bats?
From the Series Core Content Science — Earth's Amazing Animals
Bats have a bad reputation as blood-sucking creatures of the night. But these fascinating mammals actually help people by eating insect pests and pollinating fruit trees and flowers. In this… Read More →
What's So Scary about Sharks?
From the Series Core Content Science — Earth's Amazing Animals
Although some sharks are very scary and dangerous, most species are quiet creatures who pose no threat to humans at all. Readers will learn all about the many kinds of sharks, what they… Read More →
What's So Scary about Snakes?
From the Series Core Content Science — Earth's Amazing Animals
Even venomous snakes can be helpful to people and Planet Earth! Young readers will learn the truth about the many different kinds of snakes, how to tell which ones are truly dangerous and… Read More →
What's So Scary about Spiders?
From the Series Core Content Science — Earth's Amazing Animals
Spiders seem scary, but they are really quiet creatures who help humans by eating many insect pests. And it’s hard not to love nature’s best engineer as it builds elaborate web homes. Young… Read More →
What's the Season?
From the Series Get Started with STEM
From weather and day length, to plants and animals, in this title, readers will investigate how the world around them changes as the seasons change. With activities such as recording… Read More →
What's the Weather?: An Alien's Guide
From the Series Early Bird Nonfiction Readers — Silver (Early Bird Stories ™)
There are many different types of weather on Earth. Learn about how humans measure and predict weather as well as its effects on our daily lives. Read More →
What to Do When Climate Change Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Dealing with Climate Change Stress
From the Series What-to-Do Guides for Kids
What to Do When Climate Change Scares You is the first book of its kind to offer age-appropriate coping tools for six- to twelve-year-olds experiencing eco-anxiety. This groundbreaking new… Read More →
What to Expect When You're Expecting Hatchlings: A Guide for Crocodilian Parents (and Curious Kids)
From the Series Expecting Animal Babies
Congratulations, crocodilian parents-to-be! You have little ones on the way. They're called hatchlings. Read this book to find out where to lay your eggs, how you'll know when the babies are… Read More →
What to Expect When You're Expecting Larvae: A Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Kids)
From the Series Expecting Animal Babies
Congratulations, insect parents-to-be! You’re about to meet your squirmy, wormy bundles of joy. They’re called larvae. Read this book to find out where to lay your eggs, how many babies to… Read More →
Wheels and Axles
From the Series Early Bird Physics
Of the six simple machines, the wheel and axle is probably the most recognized. But how does it help you work? Simple and fun experiments illustrate the basic concepts explained in the text… Read More →
When Lightning Strikes
From the Series Let's Look at Weather (Pull Ahead Readers — Nonfiction)
Dramatic photos and simple text describe a lightning storm to emergent readers. Pair this nonfiction title with its companion fiction story, Hiding from Lightning. Read More →
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses
The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The… Read More →
When Nature Attacks — Hardcover Set
From the Series When Nature Attacks
Nature can be ruthless. Explore the science behind the worst disasters to have hit the planet, including how they happen, what the environmental impact is, and how technological advancements… Read More →
When Plants Attack: Strange and Terrifying Plants
Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E. Hirsch presents fun and gross facts about a variety of plants along with explaining the science behind why they do what they do. Featured plants… Read More →
When the Sun Shines on Antarctica: And Other Poems about the Frozen Continent
Icebergs brighten as the sky peels itself of darkness and stretches awake. . . . Welcome, Summer. We've been waiting for you. Experience summer like you've never experienced it… Read More →