Synopsis: Beginning readers explore the steps to make plants grow! Readers will learn about various parts of the plant including seeds, roots, and leaves in this engaging nonfiction title. Featuring vivid, clear photos and simple, informational text, even the most reluctant reader will be captivated!

Synopsis: Explore how volcanoes are formed and what causes an eruption in this engaging and fascinating nonfiction reader. Featuring bright, vivid photos, explanatory diagrams, informational text, and stimulating facts, this fascinating title engages readers in the scientific and natural causes behind volcanoes and their eruptions.

Synopsis: Wild animals can be sorted in many ways. Some are big. Some are small. Some are fast. Some are slow. What are some other ways that animals can be sorted? With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, simple informational text features to help navigate the book, and easy-to-read, repetitive text, beginning readers will learn real-world applications of math skills as they learn to sort and classify and build their STEM skills.

Synopsis: Young readers fascinated by the changing skies will love the dazzling color photos in these books about weather. Each book focuses on one type of weather and its causes. This series is a great addition to any instruction about the weather.

Synopsis: Explains What Happens When It Rains.

Synopsis: Nothing says summer is here like the big, bright blossoms of a sunflower!In this book, readers (Ages 6-7) learn how this towering plant starts out life-as a small black seed. They also learn about the different parts of the plant and how they all work together to help it grow and thrive.

Synopsis: Safari day dawns on the savanna. The African light gives the sky colors seen nowhere else on Earth. Soon, an amazing array of wild animals are yawning, screeching, and growling to life. Meet the elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, hippos, and the laughing hyenas of the wilderness and find out who’s friends with whom and why!National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more…

Synopsis: This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Beatrix wins the Science Fair every year--because she uses magic to cheat! But Olive really wants to win this year, and she has the best…

Synopsis: WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg? Simple die-cuts magically present transformation-- from seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly.The acclaimed author of Black? White! Day? Night! and Lemons Are Not Red gives an entirely fresh and memorable presentation to the concepts of transformation and creatiity. Seed becomes flower, paint becomes picture, word becomes story--and the commonplace becomes extraordinary as children…

Synopsis: Take a stroll along the beach. What do you see? Young readers will learn all about the beach and the animals that call it home in this fun pre-reader. Through text features such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts -- helping them expand their understanding of the world.

Synopsis: A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history. Includes a bibliography and an index.

Synopsis: Through simple rhymes and delightfully colorful art, this book describes how seeds turn into sunflowers. Comes with game cards and skill-building activities.

Synopsis: Discover the amazing women who took science by storm!Women scientists are not new, but they haven’t always gotten credit for being so stellar. In Jennifer Calvert and Octavia Jackson's Science Superstars, you’ll be introduced to 30 remarkable women whose passion and dedication to all things science led to groundbreaking discoveries, vital medicine, essential technology, and cutting-edge inventions that changed the world. If you use GPS or Wi-Fi…