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Buzzing Rattlesnakes

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

What animal talks with its tail, smells with its tongue, hears with its body, and finds its prey by sensing body heat? A rattlesnake! Learn how these amazing animals give birth, hunt and eat… Read More →

  • Lexile: 420
  • ATOS: 2.2
  • Dewey: 597.96
  • Copyright: 1998
Cover: Dandelions: Stars in the Grass
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Dandelions: Stars in the Grass

In Dandelions, Mia Posada brings to life the beauty of the flower better known as a weed and a nuisance. This book invites readers to discover and watch the life cycles of dandelions with… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • ATOS: 2.6
  • Dewey: 583'.99
  • Copyright: 2000
Cover: Giant Octopuses
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Giant Octopuses

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

How do octopuses swim? Why can they change to fit into any shape? Young readers can learn the answers to these and many other questions in the Pull Ahead Books title Giant Octopuses. Engaging Read More →

  • Lexile: 560
  • ATOS: 2.7
  • Dewey: 594'.56
  • Copyright: 2000

Spinning Spiders

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Did you know that spiders aren't bugs or insects? They are called arachnids because they have a different number of body parts and legs than insects have. Through startling photographs, learn Read More →

  • Lexile: 450
  • ATOS: 2.3
  • Dewey: 595.4'4
  • Copyright: 1998

Squeaking Bats

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Bats use their voices to find food like a ship uses radar to find its way. They squeak out calls, and when the noise bounces off of a bug, the bat knows it is there and can catch it! Although Read More →

  • Lexile: 400
  • ATOS: 2.0
  • Dewey: 599.4
  • Copyright: 1998

Watchful Wolves

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Wolves are a lot like people. They are mammals, they live in families, or packs, and they live and hunt in a certain territory, or home. Wolves must have very good hearing and a strong sense… Read More →

  • Lexile: 450
  • ATOS: 2.0
  • Dewey: 599.773
  • Copyright: 1998
Cover: What Is a Scientist?
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What Is a Scientist?

From the Series What Is...?

Simple text and full-color photographs depict children engaged in various activities that make up the scientific process: asking questions, noticing details, drawing what they see, taking… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.4
  • Dewey: 502.3
  • Copyright: 1998
Cover: Caves
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Caves

From the Series Nature in Action

Bit by bit, over thousands or even millions of years, water carves and shapes rock into designs only nature could create. Deep in limestone or under a few feet of hardened lava, on an ocean… Read More →

  • Lexile: 880
  • ATOS: 5.6
  • Dewey: 551.4'47
  • Copyright: 1995

Tornado

From the Series Nature in Action

The day is hot and muggy, but cool weather is moving in. All at once, there's a thunderous rumble that sounds like an approaching freight train. The sky darkens and the wind picks up. A… Read More →

  • Lexile: 940
  • ATOS: 6.1
  • Dewey: 551.55'3
  • Copyright: 1992
Cover: Wonderful Worms
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Wonderful Worms

From the Series Linda Glaser's Classic Creatures

"A celebration and natural history of the helpful 'underground gardeners'."—Kirkus Reviews Wonderful Worms encourages an appreciation for the small creatures of the earth by explaining the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 390
  • ATOS: 2.2
  • Dewey: 595.1
  • Copyright: 1992

Lightning

From the Series Nature in Action

One hundred bolts of lightning strike the earth every second. Each bolt has two or more electrical flashes moving quicker than the eye can see. In Lightning, find out about the powerful… Read More →

  • Lexile: 870
  • ATOS: 5.4
  • Dewey: 551.5'632
  • Copyright: 1992

Silkworms

From the Series Lerner Natural Science

Silkworms are not actually worms at all. They are the caterpillars of a large white moth. Many moth caterpillars produce silk thread inside their bodies, but the thread of the silkworm is so… Read More →

  • Dewey: 638
  • Copyright: 1982