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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Everybody Serves Soup
It has snowed so much that Carrie has the day off from school. She wants to earn money shoveling to buy her mother a Christmas present. But what should she buy? As she goes from house to… Read More →
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 →
Hillary to the Rescue
Hillary's drama club has planned a trip to the theater on a cold, snowy day. Always prepared, Hillary bundles up in her warmest clothes and her super-duper warm snow boots. On the long van… Read More →
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 →
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 →
Marsh Music
At night, ten different species of frogs convene in a marsh. Fireflies light up the scene as Maestro bullfrog raises his baton. The music builds to a crescendo as the night goes on. Just… Read More →
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
From the Series On My Own Biography
In the early 1800s, very few girls were allowed to learn about science. Yet Mary Anning spent her life hunting for fossils on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. When she was still a girl,… Read More →
Pattern Fish
From the Series Math Is Fun!
Patterns are found in math, reading, science, music, art, dance, and poetry--and in the world all around us. Read More →
Sammy Spider's First Purim
Sammy Spider wants to help Josh get ready for Purim. Instead, he gets stuck inside a grogger. How will he escape? Read More →
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
From the Series On My Own History
On a dark, cold, and rainy night in April 1777, Sybil Ludington sets out on a journey to warn American soldiers that danger is headed their way. The British are coming! They have already… Read More →
Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer
From the Series On My Own Biography
As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her… Read More →
Building Beavers
From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals
Who built the first dam in North America? A beaver! Learn how beavers--much like humans--change the landscape to suit their needs. Stunning photos and engaging text show beavers eating,… Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
From the Series Words Are CATegorical ®
Adjectives are words like hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary. Simple, rhyming text and colorful cartoon cats help children expand their vocabularies and gain an appreciation for the rhythm of… Read More →
Pablo Picasso
From the Series On My Own Biography
This biography for new readers tells Pablo Picasso's story by describing the evolution of his art--from his Blue Period to his Rose Period to cubism. As a child in Spain, Picasso drew… Read More →
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 →