Synopsis: Explore what the weather looks like and feels like on a rainy day, a sunny day, a snowy day, a cloudy day, a cold day and a windy day.

Synopsis: A basic introduction to what you see on a snowy day

Synopsis: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical novel for adults and children alike 'I've stolen a garden,' she said very fast. 'It isn't mine. It isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already; I don't know.' After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no…

Synopsis: A two-tiered guessing game challenges readers to determine the link between adjoining pages by counting the number of similar objects and identifying how they are related to cleverly hidden homonymn or homophone clues. IP.

Synopsis: Last week we had a storm. The rain poured down, the wind blew and the lightning lit up the night sky.

Synopsis: Eager to go alone to the stream for crayfish, Little Raccoon becomes afraid when he sees a strange thing in the water.

Synopsis: Find out about the people weather affects and the tools we use to learn about the weather.

Synopsis: Newbery Honor author Bauer examined the power of Mother Nature as she examined two natural phenomena and the damage they can do, in these easy-to-understand readers. Full color.

Synopsis: The fifth installment of the Reading Street curriculum for homeschooling series, Grade 5, is the perfect tool for your child's educational journey. This set of materials is designed to help your child develop a love of learning he or she will carry throughout the rest of his or her life. Not only does Reading Street aid you in educating your child on the subject of reading, the system is also designed to improve language arts and writing…

Synopsis: People, animals, and places, from ancient times to the present, spring to life from these imaginative and entertaining pop-up books. Multitiered illustrations will delight young readers as well as adults. These highly involving books have from five to seven pop-up spreads and, in most cases, one or two action devices on every page.

Synopsis: This is the true story of the renowned African American author Richard Wright and his determination to borrow books from the public library that turned him away because of his color. As a young black man in the segregated South of the 1920s, Wright was hungry to explore new worlds through books, but was forbidden from borrowing them from the library. This touching account tells of his love of reading, and how his unwavering perseverance, along…

Synopsis: - Welcome Books are reviewed by reading consultants before publication.- Includes glossary and index.- Glossary words are bolded throughout the book for easy identification and the glossary includes a pronunciation guide to help emergent readers with these new words.Grades K-4 National Science Standards- Earth and Space Science: IV- Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons, and there are ways by which weather can be measured- Science…

Synopsis: Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight? By applying these ratios and proportions to their own bodies, readers will discover what they could do if they had the amazing abilities of animals.

Synopsis: Mo, a little boy who doesn't want to eat his dinner, turns himself into a series of ever-expanding monsters that eat virtually everything except stringbeans and cheese souffle, including math teachers and entire countries.

Synopsis: Gerald the giraffe longs to dance, but his legs are too skinny and his neck is too long. His knees buckle whenever he tries to twirl. At the Jungle Dance, the warthogs waltz, the chimps cha-cha, and the lions tango. "Giraffes can't dance", they all jeer when it's Gerald's turn to prance.Fortunately, there is one little creature who believes in Gerald. "Everything makes music", says the cricket, "if you really want it to". So Gerald starts…

Synopsis: The sequel to Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist.When Joey Pigza meets his dad for the first time in years, he meets a grown-up version of his old out-of-control self. Carter Pigza is as wired as Joey used to be -- before his stint in special ed, and before he got his new meds.Joey's mom reluctantly agrees that he can stay with his dad for a summer visit, which sends Joey racing with sky-high hopes that he and Carter…

Synopsis: Believe in the possible . . . with this "warm, witty, and wise" New York Times bestselling novel from three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm. A perfect read about a child's relationship with her grandfather! Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer.Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed…