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Cover: What Is a Liquid?
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What Is a Liquid?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — States of Matter

What Is a Liquid? offers emergent readers a simple explanation of matter, a description of liquids, and examples of how liquids can change into different states of matter. Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.5
  • Dewey: 530.4'2
  • Copyright: 2007
Cover: What Is a Solid?
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What Is a Solid?

From the Series First Step Nonfiction — States of Matter

What Is a Solid? offers emergent readers a simple explanation of matter, a description of solids, and examples of how solids can change into different states of matter. Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.6
  • Copyright: 2007
Cover: Wolf's Coming!
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Wolf's Coming!

As a distant howl echoes through the forest, animals quickly stop what they're doing and run for home. Look out—Wolf's coming! As the shadowy figure gets closer and closer and the day draws… Read More →

  • Lexile: 390
  • ATOS: 1.2
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2007

Yu the Great: Conquering the Flood [A Chinese Legend]

From the Series Graphic Myths and Legends

This graphic novel tells the legend of Yu the Great, a Chinese hero from the twenty-first century B.C. Some scholars believe Yu actually existed and that he founded the Xia Dynasty, the first Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 4.1
  • Dewey: 398.2'0951'02
  • Copyright: 2007
Cover: African Elephants
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African Elephants

From the Series Pull Ahead Books — Animals

Do you know....How African elephants use their trunks? What African elephants do with their front teeth? What baby African elephants are called? Read this book to discover the answers! Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.2
  • Dewey: 599.67'4
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds
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A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds

Many seeds travel inside fruits. The fruit is like a suitcase for the seeds. It protects them on their trip. Readers will learn how fruits are designed to protect a plant's seeds and also to… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.6
  • Dewey: 581.4'67
  • Copyright: 2002
Cover: Battle Cry
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Battle Cry

Two boys, best friends, are torn between opposing sides of bloody war in 1862. Johnny is white, and Chaska is part Dakota. The boys have seen whites treat the Dakota with injustice and… Read More →

  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: Butternut Hollow Pond
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Butternut Hollow Pond

In the course of a full day at Butternut Hollow Pond, readers will meet water striders, snapping turtles, herons, woodchucks, and other animals that live in the pond. Readers will learn how… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: 591.763
  • Copyright: 2000
Cover: Hello, Squirrels!: Scampering through the Seasons
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Hello, Squirrels!: Scampering through the Seasons

From the Series Linda Glaser's Classic Creatures

Scamper alongside gray squirrels as throughout the seasons of the year-- as helpless newborns in the spring, as playful youngsters in the summer, as busy gatherers in the autumn, and as… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.6
  • Dewey: 599.36'2
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: Juneteenth
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Juneteenth

From the Series On My Own Holidays

June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived.… Read More →

  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: 394.263
  • Copyright: 2006

Mallory vs. Max

From the Series Mallory

Spunky, eight-year-old Mallory McDonald is very unhappy when her parents decide to get her older brother Max a dog. Why would her parents agree to such a thing? Dogs are smelly and bark and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 620
  • ATOS: 3.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2005

Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom

From the Series On My Own History

Quickly and quietly, Robert Smalls headed the ship out of the Charleston Harbor. Across the wide river was the Northern Army and freedom for slaves like him. On Robert’s side of the river was Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.7
  • Dewey: 973.8'092
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: Sam Bennett's New Shoes
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Sam Bennett's New Shoes

Sam Bennett needs new shoes. His old ones are full of holes. And Sam is growing up. With new shoes, he will now be able to help his pa plow the fields and sheer the sheep. Yet when Sam’s new Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2006

Will and Squill

A sweetly told tale about the friendship between a boy named Will and a squirrel named Squill. They do just about everything together until Will's parents surprise him with a kitten, and she… Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.1
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2006

Written Anything Good Lately?

Have you ever thought about all the different types of writing you can do? You may write papers for school and e-mails to your friends. Some of you might enjoy writing stories and poems.… Read More →

  • Dewey: 808
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: Great White Sharks
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Great White Sharks

From the Series Animal Predators

Some of the fiercest and most skilled hunters in the world, great white sharks use intellect, camouflage, and a strong sense of smell, hearing, and sight to track and kill their prey. Watch… Read More →

  • Lexile: 900
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: 597.3'3
  • Copyright: 2004

How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones?

From the Series Words Are CATegorical ®

Have fun with language! This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • Dewey: 428.1
  • Copyright: 2005
Cover: It's a Beautiful Day!
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It's a Beautiful Day!

From the Series Silly Millies Level 2

Whether it's raining, snowing, hot, or cold--it's a beautiful day! Readers will have fun guessing which animal would enjoy each type of weather the most. Read More →

  • ATOS: 1.2
  • Dewey: 591.4'2
  • Copyright: 2006
Cover: Sometimey Friend
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Sometimey Friend

Sylvia Freeman is ready to start fifth grade at Fork Hollow Elementary. Being the new kid will be a challenge, but she's counting on her great-grandmother and best friend, Miz Lula Maye, to… Read More →

  • ATOS: 4.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2005
Cover: Why Does It Rain?
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Why Does It Rain?

From the Series On My Own Science

Where does rain come from? What are clouds made of? Follow water as it makes its way through the entire water cycle. Then go back in time to the very first rainfall millions of years ago.… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: 551.57'7
  • Copyright: 2006

Wolves

From the Series Animal Predators

Some of the fiercest and most skilled hunters in the world, wolves use intellect, teamwork, a strong sense of smell, hearing, and sight to track and kill their prey. Watch these powerful… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 5.5
  • Dewey: 599.773
  • Copyright: 2004

A Style All Her Own

Isabelle Ashley Parker McBride has a style all her own. She wears special outfits for every event, from going to the dentist to having tea, and everyone admires her unique sense of style.… Read More →

  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2005
Cover: Chinese New Year
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Chinese New Year

From the Series On My Own Holidays

Chinese New Year begins each January or February on the first day of the new year in China’s traditional calendar. This 15-day celebration is the most important holiday in Chinese communities Read More →

  • Lexile: 590
  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: 394.261
  • Copyright: 2005
Cover: Cinco de Mayo
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Cinco de Mayo

From the Series On My Own Holidays

It’s fiesta time! Cinco de Mayo is a fiesta day in Mexico and the United States. It’s celebrated on the fifth of May. This colorful holiday honors Mexico’s victory over the French army at… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.8
  • Dewey: 394.262
  • Copyright: 2005