Synopsis: Research-based mini units to encourage students to learn more about their country.

Synopsis: Can a fish cough? With level B of Reading for Comprehension, your students will learn all about this kid-friendly topic and many more. This book for grade 2 students includes 46 high-interest, nonfiction articles with questions that reinforce key reading and writing skills commonly found on state tests. Multiple-choice questions test these reading skills: vocabulary, main idea and details, sequence, cause and effect, and inferences and…

Synopsis: Cartoons about the peanuts gang. Great for kids and adults. Fun to read together with children.

Synopsis: Lizards features lizards from around the world, including the frilledlizard, panther chameleon, gila monster, and Salvadori's monitor.

Synopsis: This series is the perfect introduction to the universe. Correlated to the science curriculum, simple text and full-color photographs help young readers understand the objects they see in the sky. Readers will learn why stars twinkle and shine, why the Moon appears to change shape, and an easy way to remember the names of all the planets.

Synopsis: When David enlists Joe's aid in babysitting, Wishbone escapes from his noisy home and imagines himself as Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman who, despite great danger, returns to France during the Revolution to help a friend.

Synopsis: A young girl relates the hardships and dangers of traveling with her family in a covered wagon from Illinois to California during the 1860's.

Synopsis: Fire rages on the tanker, Argo, when its cargo of deadly gas is ignited

Synopsis: All the stories in this book are based on documented cases of UFOs reported by real kids.

Synopsis: A Masai tale, presented in the form of a play, in which the frog gets the job of getting a monster out of the rabbit's house after the leopard, elephant, and rhino bungle the job.

Synopsis: This beautifully illustrated book looks at the world from a child's point of view and explains the natural elements around us. Easy-to-read text and colorful pictures show where wind and rain come from, what happens inside a cloud, and why we have storms and snow.

Synopsis: Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.

Synopsis: A beautifully illustrated, award-winning, and fascinating look at the Middle Ages by Aliki, the beloved creator of many popular books for children. The King is coming to visit! The lord and lady of Camdenton Manor must work quickly to prepare for his arrival. It will take weeks to ready rooms, set up tents, and prepare the feast itself. Everyone is busy hunting and hawking, brewing and churning. "A veritable feast of a book."--School Library…

Synopsis: Years ago, a man disappeared from the yellow house on Surprise Island. Why? The Aldens have found a clue to the mystery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic.

Synopsis: A collection of Irish Christmas tales features themes of love, sentimentality, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, superstition, and drink

Synopsis: Young readers encounter a delightful array of critters that live in the ocean.-- Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children

Synopsis: Beginning readers encounter a fascinating array of sea "critters" representing the major categories of life on Earth. Children will meet a gigantic barrel sponge, eerie looking nudibranches, and a tentacled cuttlefish. They observe sea squirts, moray eels, and a human diver. The stunning full-color photos, art, maps and simple text will spark curiosity and appeal to a child's sense of wonder. Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children (NSTA/CBC…

Synopsis: Marie Corelli lived in the time or Darwin, and took real exception to the intellectual incursions then being made on territory previously reserved to matters of faith. In its way, it's a sad thing: in _The Mighty Atom_ a gifted writer rails against the evidence of man's senses. There may be -- we'd say there are -- ways to reconcile the eternal with the evidence of our senses. But surely a harangue in the cloak of fiction is not the way to do it…

Synopsis: Any child who cherishes one toy above all others will adore this child-sized edition of the classic story of a stuffed rabbit that is magically transformed by the power of love. Loretta Krupinski has abridged text the text of The Velveteen Rabbit to make it appropriate for younger listeners. Full color.