Synopsis: Describes different types of communities, including cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Also discusses various occupations in a community.

Synopsis: Help Children Appreciate a World of Holidays All around the world, people celebrate holidays, like Mother's Day, with special traditions and festivities. The Holiday Series focuses on children's favorite holidays. Written specifically for emergent and early-fluency readers! Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL!

Synopsis: Describes consideration as the virtue of being thoughtful and suggests ways in which consideration can be shown such as respecting the rights of other people, and using good manners.

Synopsis: Describes cooperation as the virtue of working together to accomplish a task or goal and suggests ways in which cooperation can be shown such as taking turns, playing in team sports, and working on group projects.

Synopsis: Nelson Mandela, one of the most famous freedom fighters in the world, is a powerful symbol of hope for oppressed people everywhere.This is his story, revised and updated.Nelson Mandela hardly needs an introduction. However, this powerful biography provides an in-depth look at the man who grew up in a rural village in South Africa under racist apartheid rule--a regime he ultimately helped overthrow.Denenberg explores the history of South Africa…

Synopsis: Thousands of years ago, the first people to arrive on American soil traveled across a land bridge from Asia to what is now Alaska. Millions of people were already settled when Christopher Columbus "rediscovered" America in 1492. New about the "new" world soon spread, and more people arrived on American shores. The trans-atlantic journey was long and arduous, but by 1700, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch colonies had been…