Synopsis: Who can resist trucks? They’re loud. They’re complicated. They have wheels twice as tall as your dad. Trucks! has many cool images of the trucks we know and love. There are also curiosities like the $3 million mining truck that’s "like driving a house." This level 1 text is revved up with sound words and images to steer young readers on the road to reading success.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit …

Synopsis: Read and find out about six simple machines—the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the ramp, the wedge, and the screw—in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.Machines help make work easier, like when you need to lift something heavy or reach way up high. Can you adjust a seesaw to lift an elephant? What happens when you combine two or more simple machines? Read and find out out in the proven winner Simple Machines!This clear…

Synopsis: My Stem Day: Technology explains everything about the gadgets and machines you come across in everyday life. Have you ever wondered how a radio works? Or what's inside a light bulb? Or how machines can read barcodes? Technology is one of the four branches of STEM. It is all about making useful devices and finding new ways of doing things. Technology con be simple, like a wheel or a pencil. It can also be, complex, like a supercomputer or on…

Synopsis: Mighty excavators and powerful dump turks -- young children's favorite earth-moving machines are all here in superb full-color photos. Why does a bulldozer have caterpillar tracks? What machines are used to build roads and tunnels? Simple text and detailed illustrations will satisfy curious preschoolers who are busy learning about their world.

Synopsis: The natural world comes alive for young readers with Rookie Read-About Science!Rookie Read-About Physical Science series introduces the youngest readers (Ages 6-7) to physical science concepts. Each book features critical-thinking questions throughout the text; a simple, hands-on experiment; a glossary and more.