Synopsis: Key Features Description The similarities between human and penguin families are framed by bright photos of caring, sometimes comical, flightless birds. “Visually enticing.” -Booklist The similarities between human and penguin families are framed by bright photos of caring, sometimes comical, flightless birds. “Visually enticing.” -Booklist Standards RI.K.2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI…

Synopsis: What do you know about the fruits and vegetables that come from plants? With this book you can become an expert!Sometimes we eat the leaves of a plant. Sometimes we eat the roots. These foods from plants are all good for us! What do you know about the fruits and vegetables that come from plants? With this book you can become an expert!ABOUT THE SERIES: Kids love to be the experts! Now they can feel like real pros with this exciting nonfiction…

Synopsis: Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.

Synopsis: New York Times bestselling duo Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin’s beloved story about a noisy duckling is now available as a Level 2 Ready-to-Read!There’s more trouble on the farm, but Duck has nothing to do with it, for once. This time the trouble is a four-ounce puff of fluff who just won’t go to sleep, and whose play-with-me “peeps” are keeping the whole barnyard awake with him. Peep! Peep! Peep! How do you get a baby duck to hit the hay? Poor…

Synopsis: A poignant picture book about a young girl, who in the face of her parents' divorce, turns to the one constant in her life-her dog Fred. Sometimes I live with my mom. Sometimes I live with my dad. But Fred stays with me. Told from the point of view of a young child whose parents are divorced, Fred Stays with Me follows a girl and her dog, Fred, from one parent's house to the other's, giving her a sense of continuity and stability. With a…

Synopsis: When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.

Synopsis: Bearsie Bear is just falling asleep when a very cold Moosie Moose knocks on the door and asks to sleep over in Bearsie Bear's warm bed. Next knocks Cowsie Cow, then Piggie Pig, then Foxie Fox, then Goosie Goose . . . and the bed becomes, to say the least, crowded. The final knock is from Porkie Porcupine, whose insistence on a place to sleep causes a very pointed problem. How these animal friends make room for one another makes for a truly…

Synopsis: Providing maximum support to emergent readers with repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text, these books offer engaging stories that will inspire confidence in young readers. These books help develop fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

Synopsis: This Step 1 Phonics Reader can start your child on the road to reading success!Pal is a pup who’s a bit on the quiet side. But after some gentle prodding and encouragement from a few “talkative” friends, the pup finds the courage to speak up and take his final bow-wow!Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children…