Synopsis: Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.

Synopsis: Includes brief biographical information on the following people: Ethan Allen, Crispus Attucks, Lydia Darragh, Nathan Hale, Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Haym Salomon, Deborah Sampson, and George Washington.

Synopsis: Control your wiggles and be the BOSS of your ants. In I Have Ants in My Pants, Julia Cook helps normalize the feeling many kids have when they struggle to control their wiggles and provides strategies for improving impulse control. Some children just can't sit still no matter how hard they try. And Louis is no exception. He accidentally kicks his friend during story time. He can't stand still in the lunch line. And he wiggles in his seat at the…

Synopsis: "Describes dinosaur fossils that have been found around the world and how they moved. Includes dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods"--Provided by publisher.

Synopsis: Special focus on the short vowel sound of the letter "e". Penny Hen is content to be Jenny's only pet hen. But when Jenny decides to buy two more pet hens, Penny has decisions to make!

Synopsis: Repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text provide maximum support to the emergent reader. Engaging stories promote reading comprehension, and easy and fun activities on the inside back covers extend learning. Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL!

Synopsis: "What's your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk; 28,433 showers; 12,888 oranges; 14,518 candy bars; 43,371 cans of soda; and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. And that's just a fraction of the mountain of stuff you'll consume. Think of that times six billion other footprints. Makes you want to step more lightly on the Earth!"--Page 4 of cover.

Synopsis: Explores the life and work of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries.

Synopsis: Find out all about the amazing animals you need to know but never get to see, from the numbat to the zorilla, and everything in between.

Synopsis: Missing ingredients and mischievous pets create one humorous complication after another for a little old lady determined to make pancakes for breakfast in this larger-sized, color-enhanced edition of Tomie dePaola's wordless picture book classic. Pancakes for Breakfast is a Common Core exemplar text for Grades K-1.

Synopsis: Nearly forty years after publication this much-loved classic is still as popular as ever. Pam Adams's illustrations lend humour and vibrancy to the proceedings.

Synopsis: Pairs of fiction and nonfiction books share high-interest topics and encourage children to compare and contrast, distinguish between fact and fiction, and make the transition between fiction and nonfiction reading strategies.

Synopsis: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? beginning readers:These beloved children's stories are now available in beginning reader format. With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, these picture books have long been used as beginning readers. Now, with a 6" x 9" trim and a classic beginning reader layout, children will have a more "grown up" version to read by…

Synopsis: Become Expert Plants in a Forest FL

Synopsis: Accompanying a manuscript Dr. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me." The late Dr. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color." The quest for an artist finally ended—after the manuscript languished for more than two decades—at the paint brushes of husband-and-wife…

Synopsis: 2005 Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Readers Level 3: America's Early Communities -- Anne Bradstreet (P) by Phoebe Besbekis ***Number of Words: 548 ***ISBN-13: 9780618481774 ***Pages: 8

Synopsis: It's icicle city...when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and Annie become frozen dinners?

Synopsis: When Martin takes his teacher's classroom fish home for the holidays, his carelessness causes him troubles involving his little sister.

Synopsis: A little girl lists how she learned to walk, to climb and to study the earth from her friends, most of whom are animals.