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Where Is My Continent?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Where Am I?

A basic introduction to the concept of continents for emergent readers. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. Read More →

  • Dewey: 910'.02141
  • Copyright: 2002

Where Is My Country?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Where Am I?

A basic introduction to the concept of countries for emergent readers. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. Read More →

  • Dewey: 910
  • Copyright: 2002

Where Is My Home?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Where Am I?

A basic introduction to the concept of homes for emergent readers. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. Read More →

  • Dewey: 392.3'6
  • Copyright: 2002

Where Is My State?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Where Am I?

A basic introduction to the concept of states for emergent readers. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. Read More →

  • Dewey: 917.3
  • Copyright: 2002

Where Is My Town?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — Where Am I?

A basic introduction to the concept of towns. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. Read More →

  • Dewey: 307.76
  • Copyright: 2002
Cover: Work
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Work

From the Series Early Bird Physics

What is work? You may think work is doing chores or going to a job, but you do work every time you move something from one place to another. With experiments that demonstrate these… Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.8
  • Dewey: 531'.6
  • Copyright: 2002

Writing for Freedom: A Story about Lydia Maria Child

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

Lydia Maria Child grew up in the 1800s reading countless books. She defied the idea that girls weren't supposed to fill their minds with ideas and stories. They weren't supposed to write… Read More →

  • ATOS: 5.9
  • Dewey: 818'.309
  • Copyright: 2001

A Walk in the Prairie

From the Series Biomes of North America

Take a walk through the prairie. This biome of tall grass and open sky is teeming with life. How do the plants and animals of the prairie survive? As you travel through the prairie, watch… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: 577.4'4
  • Copyright: 2001

Dance of the Swan: A Story about Anna Pavlova

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1881, Anna Pavlova grew up dreaming of becoming a prima ballerina. Throughout her lifetime, Anna inspired and encouraged people around the world with her… Read More →

  • Lexile: 930
  • ATOS: 6.8
  • Dewey: 792.8'028'092
  • Copyright: 2001

Floating Jellyfish

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Have you ever avoided stepping on a jellyfish so that it wouldn't sting you? Uncover why jellyfish sting, how they clone themselves and glow in the dark, and how they hide from predators.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 380
  • ATOS: 2.6
  • Dewey: 593.5'3
  • Copyright: 2001
Cover: Levers
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Levers

From the Series Early Bird Physics

Do you know what a lever is? How can a lever help you? Through simple experiments and clear explanations, understand how this simple machine functions and how it can make the work that you do easier. Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.3
  • Dewey: 621.8'11
  • Copyright: 2002

Natural Writer: A Story about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dreamt of becoming a famous writer from the time that she was a young girl. After several years of searching for adventure and success, Marjorie finally found… Read More →

  • Lexile: 870
  • ATOS: 5.9
  • Dewey: 813'.52
  • Copyright: 2001

Voice of Freedom: A Story about Frederick Douglass

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

Born a slave, Frederick Douglass grew up facing hunger, hard work, and terrible beatings. After overhearing that reading was the key to freedom, Frederick became determined to learn to read.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 820
  • ATOS: 5.5
  • Dewey: 973.8'092
  • Copyright: 2001

All About Passover

Features the history and customs of Passover, including the story of the Exodus, all about chametz and matzah, the tradition of tzedakah at Passover, and an introduction to the seder.… Read More →

  • Dewey: 296.4'37
  • Copyright: 2000

An Unbroken Chain: My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust

In this amazing true-life account of the Holocaust, Henry Oertelt retraces the sequence of events that forever changed his destiny. Each event is broken down into eighteen separate incidents, Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2000

Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors

From the Series Worlds Beyond

During the formation of the solar system, not all of the materials in the vast could of dust and gas were used. What happened to the remaining ice, metal, and rock? It formed what became… Read More →

  • Dewey: 523.5
  • Copyright: 2006

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: All-Around Athlete

From the Series On My Own Biography

Babe Didrikson was running and jumping hedges at the age of eight. Her dedication to training and practicing resulted in her becoming one of the greatest woman athletes of the century.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • ATOS: 3.7
  • Dewey: 796.352'092
  • Copyright: 2000

Clinging Sea Horses

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Do you know why sea horses cling to underwater objects with their tails? Or did you know that sea horses grow in a pouch on their father's body, not their mother's? In Clinging Sea Horses,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 380
  • ATOS: 2.1
  • Dewey: 597'.6798
  • Copyright: 2001

Cottontail Rabbits

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

In this exciting edition beginning readers can peek into the secret life of the cottontail rabbit. It may be small, but the cottontail is an expert survivor that can live in almost any… Read More →

  • Lexile: 400
  • ATOS: 2.4
  • Dewey: 599.32'4
  • Copyright: 2001

Danger at Sand Cave

From the Series On My Own History

When Arly's friend Floyd Collins is trapped by falling rocks in Sand Cave, Arly rushes to help. Arly runs errands for the workers, but he feels that he should be doing more. It is a race… Read More →

  • Lexile: 520
  • ATOS: 2.8
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2000
Cover: George Washington Carver
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George Washington Carver

From the Series On My Own Biography

Born a slave near the end of the Civil War, George Washington Carver was a small and sickly child. Too frail to work in the fields of the Missouri farm where he grew up, George did chores… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.3
  • Dewey: 630'.92
  • Copyright: 2001
Cover: Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish
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Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish

"Exceptionally handsome photographs light up the pages of this well-designed introduction to jellyfish. A few sentences or fragments, closely tied to the illustrations, appear on each spread. Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.4
  • Dewey: 593.5'3
  • Copyright: 2000

Jesse Owens

From the Series On My Own Biography

From the time he was a young boy on a farm in Alabama until he received his fourth Olympic gold medal in Berlin in 1936, all Jesse Owens wanted to do was run. Overcoming sickness, poverty,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • ATOS: 3.3
  • Dewey: 796.42'092
  • Copyright: 2001

Magnificent Monarchs

From the Series Linda Glaser's Classic Creatures

Describes, in simple text and full-color illustrations, the physical characteristics, habits, and life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.4
  • Dewey: 595.78'9
  • Copyright: 2000