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Pull Ahead Books — Forces of Nature
Explore the natural phenomena that fascinate young readers. Each clear, simple text describes the natural event and offers fascinating facts about how the phenomenon forms, what it does, how it is tracked, and how to stay safe. View →
Robins
As springtime approaches, the air fills with the sound of robins singing. Discover how these cheerful little birds with red feathers and gray fluttering wings live and grow. Rhyming verse and vivid illustrations reveal the song-filled world of this beloved bird. Activities and fun facts… View →
Robo-Motion
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a . . . robo-hummingbird? Meet robots engineered using biomimicry that are built to move like animals. These robots are changing the way we live today and shaping the way we’ll live in the future. On spreads pairing photos of robots View →
Science All Around Me (Pull Ahead Readers — Fiction)
Science concepts become relatable through these engaging fiction stories. Beginning readers will learn about motion, patterns, hibernation, and more through simple stories designed to build literacy skills. View →
Science All Around Me (Pull Ahead Readers — Nonfiction)
Inspire young scientists with these introductions to concepts such as food chains, forces and motion, life cycles, states of matter, and more. With simple text structures and close photo-text matches, these readers are designed to develop nonfiction reading skills. View →
Science Solves It! ®
Kane Press’s Science Solves It!® series merges fiction and science in storylines that intrigue youngsters and encourage them to observe, investigate, predict, and experiment! Young readers ages 5–8 will be inspired by the relatable characters in each story as they… View →
Seasons All Around Me (Pull Ahead Readers — Fiction)
What do you love about each season? With carefully leveled text and vibrant illustrations, emergent readers follow the characters of these fictional stories as they experience the joys of the four seasons. View →
Seasons All Around Me (Pull Ahead Readers — Nonfiction)
Emergent readers will become careful observers of the seasons in these simple, informational texts. High-frequency words and predictive text structures help students grasp new vocabulary and build nonfiction reading skills. View →
Seasons Can Be Fun (LOOK! Books ™)
Making personal connections to seasonal activities is a powerful way for young readers to learn how each season differs from the others. Look! Books introduce early nonfiction topics with large colorful photos, captions and fast facts. A glossary, resource list and index further enhance… View →
Small Matters
Can something small matter at all? Of course it can! In this book for young readers (who know a thing or two about being small), you can take a super close look at details too little to be seen with the human eye. Powerful shots from scanning electron microscopes show shark skin, bird… View →
Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle
There is more than one way for animals to prepare for winter. Some, such as mice, foxes, and moose, simply tolerate the cold. Of course black bears hibernate, but chipmunks, wood frogs, and garter snakes do too. And then there are the creatures that migrate, including hummingbirds, blue… View →
Start to Finish
Discover how things like cars, crayons, or frogs are created—from Start to Finish. Reveal the life cycles and manufacturing processes behind common, everyday things beginning readers are familiar with while teaching sequential thinking. Suitable for both reluctant and at-grade-level… View →
Start to Finish, Second Series
Learn how a variety of objects are made or how nature’s cycles work—from Start to Finish. Suitable for both struggling and on-level readers, these titles teach science concepts as well as sequential thinking. View →
The Big Bang Book
The Big Bang presents the mystery of how the universe began in a way we can all understand. Written by an astrophysicist, the pages describe what we know—and what we don’t—in a compelling, accessible way. Moving out into the farthest reaches of space, then back home on… View →
The Long, Long Journey
Crackle! Crackle! Crunch! What’s hatching from that egg? It’s a young bar-tailed godwit. She will spend the summer in Alaska learning to fly, find her own food, and escape from scary predators. Her long, long journey begins in October when she flies to New Zealand. This… View →
Una fruta es una maleta para las semillas (A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds)
Muchas semillas viajan dentro de las frutas. La fruta es como una maleta para las semillas. Las protege durante el viaje. Los lectores conocerán de qué manera están diseñadas las frutas para proteger a las semillas de una planta y para ayudar a la planta a… View →
Who Is a Scientist?
Scientists work hard in the lab and in the field to make important discoveries. But who are they really? It turns out they are just like us! Scientists can be any race. And any gender. They can wear lab coats, jeans, or even tutus. And they are people… View →
Who Was Here?
What animal was here? Can you solve the mystery? Study the picture and read the clues to figure out who left each set of tracks. Then turn the page to find out about animals from around the world. Watercolor and collage illustrations show the many kinds of trails that animals leave… View →
Wildlife Rescue
Children are naturally curious about animals and are often interested in ways to save disappearing species. Each of these books shows simple yet innovative ways people around the globe have created safe spaces that make the world safer for… View →