Homes Around the World
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Learn about the different places that people call home-from apartments to cottages and castles to farmhouses. With bright, vivid photos and easy-to-read informational text, readers are introduced to different cultures definitions of "home."
A Butterfly's Life
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In this engaging nonfiction book, early readers are introduced to the life cycle of a butterfly. Readers will be captivated by the vivid photographs of the butterfly's life, and informative text.
My Big Family
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Introduce beginning readers to basic familiar vocabulary including family, mother, father, sister, brother, grandma, grandpa, and pets through vibrant images and informational text.
Stepping Into William Shakespeare's World
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The Stepping into the World of William Shakespeare e-Book offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Stepping into the World of William Shakespeare features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
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Come find out what professional crime scene investigators do to solve a crime in this inspiring nonfiction book! With detailed images and fascinating facts, readers learn about forensic science, criminal investigative evidence, and crime scene searches. This book includes an interview with a real-life CSI and a glossary, index, and list of useful sources.
Good for Me: Love
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Just like air, water, and food, we cannot live without love. This full-color picture e-book shows how we share our love with family, friends, teachers, pets, and more! With simple, repetitive sentences that foster word recognition skills and engaging photographs that develop the text-to-image relationship, this new fiction title builds student autonomy and reading confidence. Students will love exploring health and wellness concepts about basic human needs that align to the Next Generation and McREL Science Standards.
Games Around the World
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Have you ever heard of The Excited Burro or Ringel? These are games that children play in other countries. Children play different games in different parts of the world, but they all have fun! Vibrant photos, diagrams, maps, informational text, and interesting facts invite readers to learn the way children around the world play the same games as they do in this delightful nonfiction title.
Animal Eyes
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With this title, beginning readers discover animal eyes of all shapes and sizes. Featuring simple, informational text and colorful images even the most reluctant reader will be eager to learn!
Young Adult Literature: The Worlds Inside Us
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Explore some of the internal struggles found in "inside world books" with Young Adult Literature: The World Inside Us e-Book. Students will explore the YA Fiction characters dealing with inner conflicts with friends, family, and themselves. This nonfiction reader is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension and engage different types of learners. The Young Adult Literature: The World Inside Us e-Book features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Struggle for Survival: Fire
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If the world suddenly went dark, will you have what it takes to survive? The Struggle for Survival: Fire e-Book examines the importance of fire for survival and discusses important outdoor skills. This nonfiction reader engages middle school students with purposefully leveled content to increase comprehension for different types of learners. This e-Book features complex and rigorous content appropriate for the 6th grade classroom. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, Struggle for Survival: Fire connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Rules at School
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No running. Raise your hand. Take turns. Use inside voices. Following rules at school is very important. Featuring vivid photographs showing children following rules at school -- and some not following rules -- this e-book engages children with key words to focus on and allows them to use oral language skills to create a story on their own about following rules by observing what they see in the photographs.
Buy It! History of Money
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What did people use to buy things before money was invented? Where is money made? Find out in this inviting book that informs readers about coins, paper money, the Federal Reserve, exchange rates, and checking accounts. Featuring a timeline of money's history, detailed photos, stimulating facts, clear, informational text, and a glossary that will assist in improving vocabulary, readers will be stimulated from cover to cover.
Living in Space
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Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous nonfiction reader. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during their free time through vivid photographs, interesting, informative text, and stimulating facts.
Young Adult Literature: Magical Worlds
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Take a look at some of the fantastical elements found in the magical realms of YA Fiction with Young Adult Literature: The Magical World e-Book. Students will be whisked away to wondrous worlds and learn more about themes and conventions used in fantasy fiction. This nonfiction reader is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension and engage different types of learners. Young Adult Literature: The Magical World features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Just Right Words: Slam Poetry
by Elizabeth Siris Winchester
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Slam poetry is a form of spoken word poetry. People write and perform it for others. But slam poets don't wear costumes or use props or music. Slam poets use words to express thoughts and make people feel something. Slam poetry is often about difficult issues that people face, or it can be fun and silly. Featuring TIME For Kids content, this high-interest nonfiction reader includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary,and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! sections prompt students to connect back to the text, and provide extensive language-development activities that will develop critical thinking. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. Keep grade 4 students engaged from cover to cover with this exciting reader.
20th Century: Race to the Moon
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Discover the history of the space race in this exciting and riveting nonfiction title! Elementary readers will learn about the Kennedy Space Station, the Cold War, Sputnik, the first astronauts and cosmonauts to make it into space, and the first landing on the moon. Through captivating images, informational text, and impressive facts, readers will be enthralled and inspired by the amazing accomplishments that occurred during the race to space!
Our Earth
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Explore the history and physical details of our planet--including the atmospheric layers, the plates underground, and the solar system--in this engaging nonfiction reader that introduces early elementary readers to scientific ideas and concepts. Featuring bright images, supportive charts and diagrams, and lively text, children will be intrigued from cover to cover!
Make a Chinese New Year Dragon
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Early readers can learn how to make their very own Chinese New Year dragon in this step-by-step instructional nonfiction book. Bright, vivid photos and a glossary of required tools help introduce children to a new culture through craft-making.
A Bee's Life
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How does a small egg become a buzzing bee? With a graph of a bee's life cycle, vivid photos, explanatory vocabulary, and informational text, readers are sure to be captivated!
Staying Healthy
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From eating healthy foods to getting enough sleep, this nonfiction book introduces early readers to the basics of staying healthy. The vivid photos and informational text will encourage even the most reluctant reader to learn about the benefits of cleanliness, exercise, healthy foods, and medical checkups!
Our Earth
Part of the Time For Kids series
Explore the history and physical details of our planet--including the atmospheric layers, the plates underground, and the solar system--in this engaging nonfiction reader that introduces early elementary readers to scientific ideas and concepts. Featuring bright images, supportive charts and diagrams, and lively text, children will be intrigued from cover to cover!
A Day in the Life of a Cowhand
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Grab your cowboy hat and saddle up! Early elementary readers learn about all the responsibilities it takes to be a cowhand and ranch hand as they move through this captivating nonfiction title. Featuring plenty of vibrant photographs in conjunction with informational facts about cattle, cowboys, and rodeos, this book will have readers engaged and eager to learn more!
School Around The World
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Find out how school is the same--and different--in countries all over the world in this fascinating nonfiction title. Readers will learn about the way students learn in other countries, from homeschooling to trade schools. This interesting book features informational, descriptive text, and colorful photos and maps to engage readers from cover to cover.
22nd Century: Future of Space
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Travel to the 22nd century in this captivating nonfiction title that allows readers to discover the future of space. Elementary readers will be fascinated with the possibilites that may await human life in the future. Readers will discover the technology that may be used to one day allow humans to live on another planet, new worlds, alien life, and artificial intelligence. Featuring vibrant photos, images, informational text, a glossary of terms, and a list of helpful websites for more explorations, children will be excited and enthralled as they move through this title.
Bad Guys and Gals of the Ancient World
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Introduce readers to some of the most well-known criminals and tyrants of the past with this fascinating nonfiction book! Featuring intriguing facts and theories, colorful images, and informational text in conjunction with a glossary of terms, a bibliography, and a list of helpful websites with more information, readers will want to learn all they can about ancient history and the bad guys and gals from the past.
No Way! Amazing Acrobatics
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The Twisted! Extreme Acrobatics e-Book offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Twisted! Extreme Acrobatics features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Communicate! Characters with Courage
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Books about survival are popular, and for good reasons. Not only are they exciting to read, they can also inspire people. The same things that help characters when they are desperate can help people in day-to-day life. Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader analyzes some of the most popular survival books, and the traits that make them so popular. This high-interest title includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary, and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! sections prompt students to connect back to the text, and provide extensive language-development activities that will develop critical thinking. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. Keep grade 4 students engaged from cover to cover with this exciting reader.
Make a Gingerbread Man
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Early readers can learn how to make their very own gingerbread man in this step-by-step instructional nonfiction book. Bright, vivid photos and a glossary of tools required give children an opportunity to immerse themselves in craft-making.
Markets Around the World
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From Asia to Africa, people buy and sell goods all over the world! Learn what various types of foods and goods are sold in markets from all around the globe in this fascinating nonfiction reader. Featuring vibrant photographs, diagrams, and simple, informational text, readers will be engaged in other cultures' markets.
Behind the Canvas: An Artist's Life
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Step inside a studio and learn what it takes to be an artist! This nonfiction title engages readers through stimulating facts and vivid images and diagrams in conjunction with a brief background on well-known art movements such as Expressionism, Surrealism, and Impressionism, an interview with a real-life artist, a glossary, informational text, an index, and list of useful sources for learning more about art.
Stepping Into Mark Twain's World
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The Stepping into the World of Mark Twain e-Book offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Stepping into the World of Mark Twain features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Technology For All: Wi-Fi Around the World
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More than three billion people in the world use the Internet. Yet there are still more than four billion who do not have Internet access! But this number is slowly changing as innovations are being made to connect more people to the Internet. Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader examines Internet access in the United States and around the world, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages to "being connected." This high-interest title includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary, and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! sections provide extensive language-development activities that will prompt critical thinking. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. This intriguing text will keep grade 3 students reading from cover to cover.
Eating Right
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Early readers learn how to make healthy choices in this nonfiction introduction to nutrition and eating right. Featuring vivid, colorful photos and simple, informational text, this book teaches children the benefits of healthy eating and encouraged to make healthy decisions.
Nelson Mandela
Leading the Way
by Tamara Leigh Hollingsworth
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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired by Mandela's amazing life.
No Way! Spectacular Sports Stories
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The No Way! Weird and Wild Sports Moments e-Book offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. No Way! Weird and Wild Sports Moments features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Strange But True
Bizarre Animals
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Blobfish, pangolin, and flower mantis are just a few of the names of the bizarre bugs and animals that readers will learn about in this fascinating nonfiction title. Through vibrant images and photos, informational text, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers will learn some of the strange ways that arthropods, invertebrates, and mammals have adapted over time to camouflage themselves and develop interesting ways to keep predators away.
School Around the World
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Find out how school is the same--and different--in countries all over the world in this fascinating nonfiction title. Readers will learn about the way students learn in other countries, from homeschooling to trade schools. This interesting book features informational, descriptive text, and colorful photos and maps to engage readers from cover to cover.
Marvelous Me: My Face
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Each face has many parts. They can do many things. Smell, smile, hear wink -- the face does it all! Read through the pages of this e-book to learn all about faces! Simple sentences, exact text-to-image relationships, large font, and vibrant photographs make reading an enjoyable experience, even for children who struggle with reading.
Big and Little
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In this basic concept nonfiction book, bright photos and simple, informational text encourage beginning readers to compare sizes to find what's big and little in their world!
Life in Numbers: Managing Time
by Lisa Perlman Greathouse
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What did you do today? Much of what people do each day hasn't changed for a long time. They sleep, work, go to school, eat, and play. But the amount of time that people spend doing certain tasks has changed. Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader breaks down a typical day to evaluate how we spend our time. This high-interest title includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary, and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! sections provide extensive language-development activities that will prompt critical thinking. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. Keep grade 3 students engaged from cover to cover with this exciting reader.
Life in Numbers: Choose Your Career
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It is one of the most common questions a young person hears, but how do you decide what career is right for you? It's never too early to plan for the future! Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader introduces students to the topic of career exploration. This high-interest title includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The Reader's Guide, Dig Deeper, and Try It! sections prompt students to connect back to the text, and provide extensive language-development activities that will develop critical thinking. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary, and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. Keep grade 5 students engaged from cover to cover with this exciting reader.
Outside The Box
Like A Family
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Featuring TIME For Kids content, this e-book introduces students to the concept of family! First grade students will learn about different types of families as they are engaged in reading. The book features exact text-to-image relationships to help beginning readers develop their foundational literacy skills. Text features include a glossary and bold font to increase understanding and build vocabulary. With vibrant images and simple text, this book will keep students reading from cover to cover.
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When you think of art, perhaps you imagine a painting in a museum. But artists use many types of materials including wood, metal, sand, and even food to turn their ideas into art. With TIME For Kids content, this e-book features exact text-to-image relationships to help beginning readers develop their foundational literacy skills. Text features include a glossary and bold font to increase understanding and build vocabulary. With vibrant images and simple text, this book will keep first grade students reading from cover to cover.
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The art of glass blowing has been around for over 4,000 years! Readers explore the history of blown glass, the tools and equipment that is used, and how it is still practiced today in this engaging nonfiction reader that features vibrant images and informational text.
Zoom! How Cars Move
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Let's take a spin in the fascinating world of cars! In this engaging nonfiction title, readers learn about cars of all kinds--from the Model T roadster to electronic cars--through automobile history, the innovative way automobiles changed the way people travel, and the parts cars need in order to work properly to ensure automobile safety and keep pollution down. With detailed images and diagrams, informational text, and compelling facts, readers will want to learn everything they can about cars!
Workers in My City
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The street is so busy with all kinds of workers. Can you tell what work they do? Featuring simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, large font, and vibrant photographs, this e-book aligns to the National Council for the Social Studies, state standards, and helps students become familiar with the many people that work in our neighborhoods.
A Day In The Life Of A Ballet Dancer
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Leap into the world of a ballet dancer! In this engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the history of this art form as well as what a ballet dancer does to get ready for a performance. With informational text, vibrant photographs, a sample schedule of ballet dancer's day, a look at ballet positions, and simple, clear text, readers learn about the basics of ballet and that this beautiful art form takes a lot of hard work and dedication.
Things With Wings
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Early readers learn about wings, wing anatomy, and animal flight in this descriptive nonfiction reader that features informational text, vivid photos, and a glossary to support instruction.