These books charm readers in grades 1-3 with engaging, levelled text and delightful artwork. From animals who learn about playing well with others to pirates who just want to drive diggers, these whimsical stories are sure to delight.
Creative and innovative activities and projects will help budding scientists discover all about food, plants, rocks, and water. Every spread in these high-interest science books includes an investigation, experiment, or hands-on activity. Instead of just reading about these core curriculum topics, readers will work step by step through the fact-packed pages discovering the science for themselves. Students will ask questions, discuss ideas and theories, investigate, and experiment. Each book includes accessible text, age-appropriate instructions, opportunities to use science equipment and vocabulary, colorful designs and diagrams, and fantastic photos.
This series gets readers swaying to the rhythm as they delve into various dance styles, from the elegance of ballet to the vibrant pulse of tap dancing. Each book explains the dance style, offers tips on performing, and provides instructions for a specific dance move. Readers will be eager to step onto the dance floor with their newly learned moves.
Kids love reading about animals, especially baby animals. With engaging photographs and accessible text, this series is perfect for young readers and animal lovers alike.
This fun and engaging series presents entertaining facts on high-interest topics in easy-to-digest summaries to let readers broaden their knowledge on a favorite place or time period, or just have a few laughs. Each book in this series is filled with facts and trivia that go beyond the basics to engage readers with unexpected and amusing insights.
Explore the greatest athletes of the past and present in the world's most popular sports. Count them down from ten to one, then rank them for yourself!
This series is full of engaging makerspace projects that combine science and technology with hands-on model making. Build incredible models based on real dinosaurs and pterosaurs, including a bending Brachiosaurus, biting T. rex automaton, and a flying Pteranodon. All projects are made using recycled materials and easy-to-find craft supplies. Each project features fun, bite-size facts about the dinosaurs that inspired them. A perfect series for budding engineers and dinosaur fans alike!
Explore the wonderful world of cats, from purr-fect pets to wild predators. This series showcases 80 fascinating felines. Each book has a gallery of amazing, color illustrations, cleverly showing the individual characters of each and every breed. Check out the super shorthair who's an expert mouse-catcher, the powerful cheetah who can exceed speeds of 70mph, the hairless Sphynx cat who may need a jumper in wintertime, and much more. High interest with wide appeal, the fun bite-size facts make awesome reading for everyone, including adults and even the most reluctant of readers. Unique and pawesome!
Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott-creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports picture books-team up to create celebrations of epic proportions!
Beena loves all things royal, which is why her friends call her Queen Bee! Join Bee on her everyday adventures in this early chapter book series fit for young queens and kings.
From dirt bikes to big rigs, see how vehicles of all shapes and sizes get moving as you take a look Under the Hood part of the Lightning Bolt Books collection. With bright designs, engaging photos, and lively text, Lightning Bolt Books' bring nonfiction topics to life!
This graphic nonfiction series presents true sports stories of grit, leadership, and resistance. Dynamic visuals highlight impactful events on and off the field, as legendary athletes inspire social change. With a lively tone and colorful artwork, each book in the Athletes Who Make a Difference series follows a different sports hero's early years, journey to the pros, and ability to change the world around them.
Focus on Artificial Intelligence examines how artificial intelligence (AI) technology has captured news headlines in the 2020s. This series provides readers with a realistic look at what AI is like today, how it is likely to develop in the future, and the impact AI will have on society.
Give kids all the information they need to understand the world of money. Whether it's spending, budgeting, and saving today, or understanding the world of paying bills, taxes, and mortgages for the future, each title is an accessible read packed with everyday examples and tips. Readers will also be introduced to the world of work and will discover all about running a business and becoming an entrepreneur. With many young adults (and even some adults) struggling to manage their finances, it's never too early for kids to begin learning about the essential life skill of managing their money.
Singers keep up with new trends in music daily, but they also take influence from their idols. Young readers learn how their favorite singers inspire each other across generations. Each title in this series explores the performers' rise to fame, their artistic process, greatest performances, and more with eye-catching photos and energetic text.
History is pretty spooky! From ghosts, alien visitations, and UFO sightings through mysterious places, unexplained vanishings, and cursed tombs, the strange and sinister past explored in this spine-chilling series will enthrall every reader. Full of fascinating history, sensational revelations, and intriguing answers to mysterious questions, this exciting set of books is a guaranteed page-turner.
Join award-winning science author Sandra Markle as she sheds light on some of the most fascinating scientific investigations in the animal kingdom. Solve real-life science mysteries alongside the teams of scientists dedicated to saving vanishing species or discovering new ones. And see how scientists, governments, and concerned citizens work together to pull endangered species back from the brink of extinction.
The Pinchers are a proud family of villains, going back three generations. Ture loves his family, but he just doesn't fit in. He cannot lie or cheat to save his life . . . but could he to save his family? This witty, energetic series about one very law-abiding child born to a family of robbers combines adventure, silliness, and the familiar day-to-day of family life with comical results. The accessible, illustrated short novels are a perfect bridge to independent reading.
Learn about the history of robotics, the building blocks of a robot, the basics of coding, and more in these humorous, high-energy graphic novels. When soccer fanatic La Ion transfers to a new school, he only wants to find his next teammates. But a sign for a soccer club leads him to a robot soccer crew, with human students behind the controls. The mix-up draws La Ion into a rivalry with a club of battle-robot makers and a series of intense competitions. La Ion might join kicking and screaming, but he'll step up to the challenge and discover the concepts behind robotics, coding, and more.
History is full of lessons, and none are more important than those about the devastation of war. This fascinating series explores eyewitness accounts of some of history's most terrible conflicts and invites readers to discover what they can learn from them. Full of primary and secondary sources, timelines, and heart-wrenching accounts that reveal the human tragedy of war, Witness to War is a must-have series for every student.
Even in an age when science holds sway, fascination with the occult has not diminished. Social media, books, and news stories are filled with tales of ghost and angel encounters, monster hunters, clairvoyants, and witchcraft practitioners. The Exploring the Occult series explores both history and present-day experiences with the occult building on the sense of wonder that keeps these topics fresh and alive.
Hi-Tech Jobs Without College introduces readers to technology-based careers that don't necessarily require a college degree. This series explores jobs in computer support, cybersecurity, social media, telecommunications, and web design. The books provide information on the job, the training involved, life on the job, and the career outlook. Each book includes a graphic that presents key information visually, Source Notes, and resources to aid in further research.
In this series, authors show the many and varied contributions of immigrants who have built and continue to build America. The books show immigrant contributions past and present to the fabric of American life. Through the work they do, the businesses they create, the communities they enrich, and their achievements in areas ranging from science and technology to arts and culture, immigrants have helped to create and sustain all aspects of American life.
Ancient societies developed incredible inventions and complex techniques that continue to surprise scientists and historians today. Discover how ancient innovations laid the groundwork for modern technology in this fascinating and thoroughly researched series.
In the Garden is a series of four titles to introduce very young children to the natural world. Diverse protagonists discover the sounds and sights, plants and creatures to be found in a garden, and learn the pleasure of growing things. Simple text with rhythm and rhyme and detailed illustrations encourage a love of our environment.
Lantana Inclusive Picture Books are stories celebrating every kind of child and family, because all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read. With a focus on #ownvoices authors from under-represented groups, these stories make a diverse range of lived experiences accessible to young readers, so that children of all races, ethnicities, genders, abilities and orientations can get to love, cherish and identify with the books they read.
Learn science concepts and facts about the natural world while solving spooky mysteries in these funny and educational graphic novels. Join the Mystery Science Detectives, an after-school club with knack for solving the trickiest, eeriest mysteries around. While working each case, the team reveals the scientific knowledge at play, explaining elementary and middle-school science concepts in an engaging way. Can you solve the mysteries before the team does?
Kaz and Truly, two mismatched cousins, have discovered a pair of mysterious matching wristbands. And when they bump the bands together, they summon an outer-space superhero. Meet Trinn Cyclo, the Omega Knight! It's a weird afternoon. But as Kaz, Truly, and the rest of Oregon become targets of alien invaders Maximo Skulldigg and the Galactic Horde, they'll need all the help they can get!
In the Wolf in Underpants books, a wolf's fearsome reputation has other forest animals running scared . . . until the wolf shows up wearing a comfy striped pair of underpants. These hilarious graphic novels are fables for the modern age, showing early readers how to look past rumours and appreciate the differences among us.
Nine-year-old Ari likes to run track and play with his dog. He is also in a club that many don't know about . . . the Secret Kindness Society! Young readers will enjoy following Ari's adventures in these early chapter books.
Join in with the dino sports-filled fun in the series Dino Board Books. Learn how dinosaurs play different sports with simple rhyming text and bright, appealing illustrationsÑwritten by Lisa Wheeler with illustrations by Barry Gott.
In this series, little readers can guess which animals are hiding under colorful flaps by reading the clues. Perfect for reading aloud and developing early word recognition, children will want to read these books again and again.
Hanukkah, the eight-day Festival of Lights, celebrates the victory of the brave Maccabees over the mighty armies of Syrian King Antiochus. According to legend, when the Maccabees came to restore the Temple in Jerusalem, they found only one small jug of oil, enough to keep the menorah lit for just one day. But a miracle happened, and the oil burned for eight days. On each day of the holiday, we add an additional candle to the menorah, exchange gifts, play the game of dreidel, and eat fried latkes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts) to remember this victory for religious freedom. This year, make your festival of lights shine even brighter with books from Kar-Ben!
Beena loves all things royal, which is why her friends call her Queen Bee! Join Bee on her everyday adventures in this early chapter book series fit for young queens and kings.
Join Noah and Blue as they invent and bring to life original animal creations with the help of a magical book. Readers will love the mischief and mayhem in these fun, accessible chapter books.
The 50 Things You Should Know About series explores important topics from science to technology to art in 50 bite-sized chunks. Packed with facts, diagrams, infographics, and photos, this series provides perfect introductions to a range of topics for inquisitive kids.
Scavengers come alive through amazing photographs and thrilling narrative text! Explore the ways they find food and raise their young to be the next generation of scavengers.
Shimmer, sparkle, twirl... Imani's hair magically changes when she embraces her inner powers, such as bravery, compassion, creativity, and more. Young readers will love following Imani's adventures with her hair magic in these early chapter books.
Explore the beauty and significance of holidays and festivals around the world! Children have the opportunity to embrace multiculturalism and understand the world around them at a young age. Each book includes cultural backmatter and an activity or craft to continue the celebration in the classroom or in your own home.
What can really change the world? In the seven-book series Together we can change the World, children learn how they can transform themselves and the world around them by embracing their emotional superpowers-love, courage, compassion, respect, kindness, integrity, and gratitude. Through seven stories across seven continents, each featuring the precious connection between a child and an endangered animal, we highlight our responsibility to Planet Earth.
Emily has been inspired to celebrate the four seasons through makerspace arts and crafts! Using nature and recycling along the way, the projects in this book are affordable and fun to do. Some of the raw materials can be found on a scavenger hunt, great fun in itself. Kids will love making paper seed bombs in spring, a flower press in summer, making awesome pinecone animals in fall and a stunning garland for thanksgiving. Step-by-step instructions and photographs are easy to follow. So, kids can turn off the tech, look after nature, enjoy some cool, spooky projects and get creative.
Celebrate Passover with books from Kar-Ben! Prepare your house for the holiday, learn about the seder, and enhance your celebration with our Passover stories. From picture books to haggadahs, Kar-Ben offers stories and information about this important holiday that celebrates freedom. Enjoy your seder with these great books that also make wonderful afikomen gifts!
Build incredible makerspace models based on real spacecraft, space experiments, and scientific instruments, including an air-powered rocket, orbiting orrery, and an incredible telescope. Projects are made using recycled materials and easy-to-find craft supplies. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions make each project easy to follow, while handy QR codes link to downloadable templates and videos to show moving models in action. Each project features fun facts about space and the science that inspired them. The perfect series for budding engineers and space fans by renowned animations children's author Rob Ives.
What would life be like if the ancient creatures from the age of dinosaurs still roamed Earth? Twenty-four fascinating creatures are showcased across this four-book series. Each book features incredibly true-to-life illustrations, cleverly showing the prehistoric animals in modern settings. Check out the T-rex terrorizing herds of animals, the Shonisaurus challenging whales for rule of the sea, and the record-breaking Seismosaurus causing chaos with its gigantic body. High interest and eye-catching, this is dinosaurs like you've never seen them before.
Our planet is covered with an incredible variety of plants, from tiny blades of grass under our feet to giant trees towering above our heads. Explore the science of plants in a fun way through quick, browsable facts and stunning illustrations. Check out the weird and wonderful: from the carnivorous pitcher plants that trap insects, to the amazing species used in cooking or medicines, and more. High interest with wide appeal, this series journeys through nature and the elements and the animals that live alongside plants.
Explore the wonderful world of trees. Our planet is covered with an incredible variety, from tiny, elegantly crafted bonsai to giant redwoods towering above our heads. This brilliant four-book series explores the science behind trees in a fun, curious way, showcasing the most fascinating species through fun, bite-size facts and stunning color illustrations. Check out the weird and wonderful: from the amazing species with healing powers, to the beautiful but deceiving trees that smell surprisingly foul, to the remarkable species that have adapted to extreme environments. High interest with wide appeal, this series will stay with kids forever!
An awesome guide to each of the four seasons, with emphasis on its effects on the natural world. Join cute and funny animals as they appear throughout brightly illustrated scenes and take a simple look at the seasons and the changing weather. Observe the subtle science behind seasonal changes; from rainbows in spring, to bees seeking nectar in summer, pumpkins in fall, to the winter freeze. A playful, humorous, engagingly fresh look at the seasons and how the world changes around us.
Dive into the wonderful world of sharks! From their prehistoric past to their uncertain future, discover what makes these mysterious creatures so special and learn why they need our protection. Stunning illustrations and fantastic facts bring loads of remarkable sharks to life, including the infamous great white, gruesome goblin shark, and even some that can glow in the dark! The Shark Safari series offers a fresh take on a popular topic, drawing attention to some of the world's most endangered species and the dangers they face. This vibrant series is sure to become a bookshelf favourite.
The Inquisitive Kid's Guide to the Human Body is a fantastic introduction to the science of the human body, for young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question and answer format make this key subject fun and accessible for even the most reluctant readers. This series covers all the important topics, including the digestive, respiratory, circulatory and nervous systems, while focusing on questions that kids want to know the answers to.
Explore the world of machines! Digging, plowing, drilling, flying; big or small. Machines are used all over the world in all sorts of ways.Discover the different machines used on the farm, at the theme park, for saving lives at the hospital, and much more! Learn which machines are used to build houses, and which one make loop-de-loops. See machines that can be found around the house and ones that are blasted into space. Bright, illustrated scenes show different machines in action, while simple, informative text explains how they work. Perfect for little engineers who like to see what machines do and how they work.
Death Uncovered is a high-interest, low-level series that explores near-death experiences and ghost stories, as well as traditions and legends about what happens after we die. Each title features six engaging narrative stories centered around death and the afterlife.
Investigate the stories of real-life people who survived dangerous situations. Each title in this high/low series features five incredible tales to inspire and educate. These stories highlight people who beat the odds through a mix of luck, smarts-and their iron wills to survive.
STEM to the Rescue is a series for young readers that highlights innovations in science. Can the same great minds who thought up the internet, cloning, and missions to Mars come up with new ways to keep our homes running smoothly? Every day, there’s new tech on the horizon. Side bars showcase how scientists are thinking, inventing, creating, and doing. And an activity challenges readers to use their minds to think into the future.
Reality can be harshÑso why not jump to a new reality? Is that even possible?Explore some of the most popular sci-fi tropes from popular books, shows, and movies. Then, learn how they're grounded in reality. From alternate realities to time travel, these ideas are now part of our everyday lives, even if they're not quite ""real"" yet. But is there any scientific basis behind them? Could we someday make things like warp drives, simulations, and cybernetic limbs reality? Or are we just in a perpetual plot hole? Strange Science is the series that will find out.
Creative and innovative activities and projects will help budding scientists discover all about food, plants, rocks, and water. Every spread in these high-interest science books includes an investigation, experiment, or hands-on activity. Instead of just reading about these core curriculum topics, readers will work step by step through the fact-packed pages discovering the science for themselves. Students will ask questions, discuss ideas and theories, investigate, and experiment. Each book includes accessible text, age-appropriate instructions, opportunities to use science equipment and vocabulary, colorful designs and diagrams, and fantastic photos.
Give kids all the information they need to understand the world of money. Whether it's spending, budgeting, and saving today, or understanding the world of paying bills, taxes, and mortgages for the future, each title is an accessible read packed with everyday examples and tips. Readers will also be introduced to the world of work and will discover all about running a business and becoming an entrepreneur. With many young adults (and even some adults) struggling to manage their finances, it's never too early for kids to begin learning about the essential life skill of managing their money.
This vibrant, colorful science series brings STEM to life and gets your students thinking and working like scientists. Readers will get to ask and answer questions; make observations; collect, record, and analyze data; perform tests; use simple scientific equipment; and have fun with experiments and science activities. Packed with facts and beautiful photographs, the series covers a range of core curriculum topics, giving students everything they need to get hands-on with science. Each book is supported by a wide range of free, downloadable worksheets and other resources.
Kids will love the full-page, labelled images and text that is written for emerging readers to tackle alone or with help. These books are real page turners that kids will return to again and again!
Wow! Cool! Look at this! Just some of the reactions that students will have to the incredible double-page photographs and fascinating facts on every spread of this carefully levelled new science series.
As it grows from a seed to a mature giant, discover how a tree makes oxygen, cleans the air, feeds the soil, and becomes a home for millions of tiny creatures.
Read about the world's greatest athletes and compare their careers in a fun and exciting head-to-head format. Explore their stats and greatest moments, and then choose a winner. Will your favorite come out on top?
Explore the greatest athletes of the past and present in the world's most popular sports. Count them down from ten to one, then rank them for yourself!
Gymnastics is a popular and highly viewed sport with a long, exciting history worldwide. Competitions range from beginner to professional levels and are made up of a variety of specialized events. This engaging series gives readers an inside look at gymnastics, including its history and the top gymnasts of the past and present.
Read about the world's greatest athletes and compare their careers in a fun and exciting head-to-head format. Explore their stats and greatest moments, and then choose a winner. Will your favorite come out on top?
Read about the world's greatest athletes who play some of the most important positions in sports. The amazing stats, thrilling moments, and record-breaking performances packed into each book will fascinate sports fans.
This series gets readers swaying to the rhythm as they delve into various dance styles, from the elegance of ballet to the vibrant pulse of tap dancing. Each book explains the dance style, offers tips on performing, and provides instructions for a specific dance move. Readers will be eager to step onto the dance floor with their newly learned moves.
Find out what it means to be a good sport. Children can learn how to practice good sportsmanship, from trying their best to playing fairly. These levelled nonfiction titles help emergent readers build literacy skills, and pair with fictional stories to cement learning and grow reading skills.
Explore the lives of the world's best and hottest sports superstars in this incredible series. Each title takes readers through the athlete's childhood and early sport experiences through their rise to fame and current records. Witness how they rule their sports, prepare for big events, and help their communities.
Zoom into the world of dirt bike racing! Readers will speed through this series as they learn about everything about this exciting sport including rules, bikes, popular events, and famous racers. Engage literacy and engagement beyond the text with fun back matter and diagrams.
With ultimate sports, ultimate sportspeople, and landscapes, readers will love this ultimate adrenaline-high series. Packed with information about extreme sports, the extreme geography in which they take place, and the extreme sportspeople who practice them, this engaging, high-interest series will inspire the next generation of ultimate sport stars!
Sports fans will flip over this series chock-full of amazing stats and interesting information. Learn about the most important stats in sports, crunch the numbers, and meet the athletes who make it all possible.
Some athletes' careers are so impressive that they become near-mythical figures! Learn about the lives of sports heroes and legends from the past and present. These biographies of the biggest superstars in sports history cover each athlete's rise to the top, their greatest games and successes, and other moments that cemented their status as sports legends.
Discover some of the most thrilling aspects of esports (organized, multiplayer video game competitions), including the industry's biggest stars, its greatest events, and the technology that makes it all possible.
Read about the world's greatest athletes who play some of the most important positions in sports. The amazing stats, thrilling moments, and record-breaking performances packed into each book will fascinate sports fans.
The greatest teams of all time dominated their sports and won championships. Read all about legendary teams in a fun, top-ten format packed with thrilling action, interesting stats, and incredible moments.
Explore the great outdoors and examine popular hunting and fishing practices in this fun series. Readers will learn about the gear, safety requirements, and STEM concepts behind these outdoor activities. Most importantly, readers are introduced to best conservation and stewardship practices to ensure habitat health. Each title provides well-researched information with sidebars and a back matter feature to make this high-interest topic accessible and engaging.
Introduce young readers to popular sports! These accessible titles explain the equipment needed and the basic rules of eight sports. Social and emotional connections encourage readers to think about what it would be like to play on a team.
Meet some of the world's most famous athletes, celebrate their biggest games and defining moments, and discover what they like to do for fun. See how these superstars worked hard to achieve their dreams and now inspire others.
Explore the lives of the world's best and hottest sports superstars in this incredible series. Each title takes readers through the athlete's childhood and early sport experiences through their rise to fame and current records. Witness how they rule their sports, prepare for big events, and help their communities.
This series highlights the greatest athletes across the world's most popular sports in a fun, top-ten format! Packed with color photos, exciting stats, and thrilling action, each book is sure to appeal to sports fans.
Learn about the history, greatest players, and most iconic moments of the world's most popular sports teams. Chock-full of stats and shareable information, sports fans will love the action-packed, high-interest text and thrilling photos.
Each book in this series features two fun stories. Delightful illustrations and text levelled to GRLs A-C appeal to emergent readers while helping them develop reading skills.
Emergent readers will delight in these silly, simple, and carefully levelled stories, featuring guided reading levels C-D. With two tales in each book and charming illustrations, readers will have fun while developing reading skills.
Detective Gordon is a friendly, philosophical, humorous, and thoughtful detective series following the adventures of the rather tired-and often hungry-Detective Gordon and his chirpy assistant, Buffy.Detective Gordon is something of a humanist, and keeps an eye out for the weaker inhabitants of his woods. The books are full of warm, witty wisdom from one of Sweden's foremost children's authors, Ulf Nilsson. The text is affectionately and generously illustrated in watercolor and pencil by acclaimed Dutch illustrator, Gitte Spee. This is a detective series with depth-ideal for elementary school, perfect for reading alone, wonderful for reading aloud.
The Georgie Dupree series is for new and emerging readers, featuring a vibrant Black elementary student, a loving Black family that reminds you of your own, and classmates of all backgrounds and abilities. The series teaches children how to solve their own problems in everyday situations. Georgie is a character that children want to root for because her stories are relatable and there are valuable lessons weaved in. Readers are introduced to Georgie when she moves to a new city and taps into a creative passion to make new friends. The books teach resilience, self-confidence, and the power of positivity.
After the government officially recognizes androids as living beings, Fitzgerald High starts a program integrating human and android students, earning it the nickname AI High. Whether they're human or android, teenagers will always have drama.
After mysterious space ships send an EMP pulse that fries all technology on Earth, teens must survive the chaos of an alien invasion with few tools except their wits.
New York City. The 1870s. The gloves are off. Bareknuckle depicts a diverse group of bareknuckle boxers as they make their way in the Bowery neighborhood’s (fictional) Woodrat Club. Each title follows a different teenage lead as he overcomes adversity in and out of an underground New York fight club.
High-school basketball players at the top of their games grapple with challenges on and off the court. A school cheating scandal, inner-city life, and racial tensions push these athletes to the brink of quitting the sport they love. When life misses its mark, can these players rebound and rise above the obstacles in their path?
This series covers the in-game and after-game drama of the Copperheads, an elite varsity girls’ soccer team in North Carolina.
In these fast-paced and highly engaging stories about natural disasters, teens face life-or-death situations in which they need luck and quick thinking to survive. While outrunning storms and surviving in the most extreme conditions, relatable characters encounter larger-than-life excitement!
In the game of high school, football rules. In these fast-paced stories, football rules more than just the school—it's at the heart of the town. Each book offers relatable characters trying their best to play the game they love. Players grapple with challenges on and off the field in page-turning plots. Dynamic action scenes keep readers engaged with plenty of football and high-school drama.
For high school soccer players, the drama of the next big game is rivaled only by the everyday drama of their lives. In these fast-paced stories, players grapple with challenges on and off the field. Dynamic scenes keep readers engaged with a balance of page-turning soccer action and real-world stakes.
Team traditions and legends aren't just superstitions in this paranormal sports series. Encountering everything from ghosts of varsity teams past to haunted playbooks, teens in this series use their athleticism and instincts when going against the supernatural.
What would you do if you woke up inside a video game you've never played? In the distant future, a shady gaming corporation has chosen teenage gamers to live in one of their thousand newly created virtual reality worlds. The teenagers are to test the game for glitches before it's released to the general public. Although these games fall into classic genres, the gamers know nothing about them. They soon learn the most important rule: Win the game, or be trapped in the virtual world forever.
Follow teens who set out to solve a mysterious event in their town of Mason Falls. From strange online profiles to a baseball team's sudden success to a missing boy, these reality-based mysteries are packed with action and surprising twists. The stories end with clear resolutions that will satisfy reluctant readers while keeping them excited to read the other books in the set.
These teens are given the chance compete in reality shows. They're all in pursuit of fame, prize money, or more personal goals. But, will the stakes turn out to be too high?
The road trips in this series don't go quite as expected. To deal with problems ranging from natural disasters to personal drama, characters have to rely on their instincts and quick thinking to make it through.
Ordinary American teens discover that they belong to the royal family of the European country Evonia. Each teen must decide how to deal with the perks and pitfalls that come with royal status.
Six teenagers develop superpowers on their sixteenth birthdays. Whether they can soar through the clouds or run faster than the speed of light, each teen must choose how to use this new power and figure out whom they can trust with the truth.
Urban, accessible books spotlight diverse characters struggling with mental and emotional health issues and family hardships in an alternative high school environment in St. Paul, MN.
A haunted lighthouse, a cursed bog, an unholy island. Places can sometimes have more secrets than people. These entertaining titles follow high-school-aged students who are at the mercy of a cursed placeùuntil, that is, they find The Atlas of Cursed Places at the library. Each character takes matters into their own hands to save themselves, their friends, and the spirits of the dead.
Four teenagers in need of money and a second chance are offered the chance to enter a mysterious high-stakes "contest" with a $10 million prize. To compete, they each must do a series of strange tasksùand they gradually realize that they're caught in an elaborate plot that's putting them in serious danger. But who's behind the plot? What's the endgame? It's up to the four "contestants" to get to the bottom of everything....before time runs out.
For aspiring teen ballet performers, attending the Dario Quincy Academy of Dance is a dream come true—one that quickly takes a nightmarish turn. This elite performing arts boarding school isn't just cutthroat: it's haunted. Each book reveals a new chapter of the institution's creepy history, as the students dodge the schemes of hyper-competitive classmates, the scrutiny of menacing instructors, and the threats of supernatural sabotage.
After a day full of decisions they regret, teens mysteriously get a chance at a do-over. But will reliving the day and making different choices fix their problems?
The dojo: it’s a training center. But for the teens who are learning mixed martial arts there, it’s a home base. As they work toward mastering their fighting skills, they’ll have to use the sport’s discipline to deal with real-life issues—both in and out of the fighting cage.
School's off to a typical start: same friends, same gossip, same drama. Then a mysterious guy starts to appear in some people's dreams. He claims he can give them a gift that will help them solve their problems—a gift that could change everything.
What would you do with the chance of a lifetime? Every year, a wealthy and mysterious media tycoon lets an African American high school student from his alma mater answer that question. Through a secretive selection process, he handpicks one senior to spend a semester as an intern at one of the many companies he owns. Too good to be true? Maybe. After all, it's one thing to land your dream job at a trendy clothing company or a political blog—and another thing to get caught up in the dirty work. Faced with everything from shady journalism to movie set intrigues, these teens have tough choices to make, with their futures hanging in the balance.
Former NFL star Stanley Sharp is running for mayor of Charlotte, NC. Running means putting his family—including his five daughters—in the spotlight. Fortunately, these young women are ready for it.
Teens on extreme sports adventures face life-or-death situations when something goes wrong with their gear or the weather. To survive, they must rely on their athletic skills and quick thinking.
‡Sab’as que la mayor’a de la energ’a que usamos proviene de carb-n, el petr-leo y el gas natural? ‡C-mo recolectan los trabajadores estos combustibles f-siles? ‡Y quÄ efectos tienen estos combustibles sobre el medioambiente? Lee este libro para aprender sobre el carb-n, el petr-leo y el gas natural. Did you know that most of the energy we use comes from coal, oil, and natural gas? How do workers collect these fossil fuels? And what effects do these fuels have on the environment? Read this book to find out all about coal, oil, and natural gas.
‡Alguna vez has intentado encontrar formas de resolver un problema en tu comunidad? Wangari Maathai trabaj- para resolver una crisis ambiental y ayudar a las personas al mismo tiempo.Cuando Maathai era joven, era inusual que las niûas en Kenia fueran a la escuela, pero ella estaba decidida a aprender mçs sobre la ciencia y la naturaleza. Al crecer, se dio cuenta de que se talaban demasiados çrboles. Maathai sab’a que la pÄrdida de bosques era mala para la salud del medioambiente y de las personas. Inici- el Movimiento Cintur-n Verde, que educaba a las mujeres en las aldeas rurales y les pagaba por cada çrbol que plantaban. El programa ayud- a plantar millones de çrboles y trajo dinero a las aldeas. Por su trabajo con el medioambiente y los derechos humanos, Maathai se convirti- en la primera mujer africana en recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz. Have you ever tried to come up with ways to solve a problem in your community? Wangari Maathai worked to solve an environmental crisis and help
La cadena de bloques es la poderosa tecnolog’a detrçs de las criptomonedas populares como Bitcoin. Descubre c-mo las cadenas de bloques ayudaron a crear estas monedas digitales que no estçn controladas por bancos ni gobiernos. Luego, lee acerca de otros usos creativos de las cadenas de bloques y el papel que juega la criptolog’a, la ciencia de la comunicaci-n secreta, en el sistema. Incluso puedes probar tus propias habilidades criptol-gicas con una actividad prçctica. Blockchain is the powerful technology behind popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Find out how blockchain helped create these digital currencies that are not controlled by banks or governments. Then read other creative uses of blockchain and the role cryptology, the science of secret communication, plays in the system. You can even test your own cryptology skills with a hands-on activity.
En Estados Unidos, los hombres negros tienen casi seis veces mçs posibilidades de ser arrestados que los hombres blancos. Esta incidencia desproporcionada se remonta a los tiempos de la esclavitud, las leyes de Jim Crow y la criminalizaci-n de las personas negras que llega hasta nuestros d’as. Una creciente sensibilizaci-n sobre el tratamiento injusto del sistema judicial motiva que cada vez mçs personas pidan un cambio. Conoce mçs sobre la historia y las causas de los encarcelamientos masivos y de quÄ manera los activistas estçn reformando y repensando la justicia. In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men. This disproportionate impact can be traced back to slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the criminalization of Black people into the modern day. With growing awareness about unfair treatment in the justice system, more and more people are calling for change. Read more about the history and causes of mass incarceration and how activists
Fun narratives feature diverse characters in stories about fall, from a trip to the apple orchard to a walk through the woods. Critical thinking, recall, and text feature questions encourage reader engagement. Now in Spanish!
The blue of the summer sky, the orange leaves in fall-celebrate the colors of the season with this charming Crayola ® series in Spanish. Vibrant photos and lyrical text encourage readers to notice color in the real world. Illustrations demonstrate art techniques and encourage readers to create art inspired by the seasonal colors around them. A back matter feature shows the Crayola ® colors that can be found in the photos throughout the book.
Presenta a los lectores los ocho planetas de nuestro sistema solar. Desde las lunas de J£piter hasta los vientos de Neptuno, los libros revelan informaci-n planetaria clave y la tecnolog’a que los cient’ficos usan para estudiarlos. Los c-digos QR de Page Plus conducen a modelos descargables para impresoras 3D de la NASA.Introduce readers to our solar system's eight planets. From Jupiter's moons to Neptune's winds, the books reveal key planetary information, and the technology scientists use to study them. Page Plus QR codes lead to downloadable 3D printer models from NASA.
Antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ning£n piloto negro hab’a volado en el ejÄrcito estadounidense. En 1941, el Cuerpo AÄreo del EjÄrcito form- un escuadr-n de pilotos exclusivamente negros. Eran conocidos como los aviadores de Tuskegee. Durante el resto de la guerra, estos pilotos se capacitaron, volaron en misiones y lucharon valientemente contra las potencias del Eje. Los aviadores de Tuskegee arriesgaron sus vidas para luchar junto a las fuerzas de los Aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y demostrar su val’a como miembros del ejÄrcito estadounidense. Aprende sobre los hÄroes que volaron para cambiar el curso de la historia a travÄs de historias de la vida real de misiones de escolta, combates aÄreos y ataques arriesgados. Before World War II, no black pilots had ever flown for the US military. In 1941 the Army Air Corps formed a squadron of only black pilots. They were known as the Tuskegee Airmen. For the rest of the war, these pilots trained, flew missions, and fought bravely a
…En este divertido libro con un ranking de los diez primeros, los lectores aprenderçn todo sobre las estrellas mejores del baloncesto! Con fotos emocionantes, estad’sticas interesantes y mçs, los fançticos de los deportes encontrarçn mucho para celebrar. In this fun top-ten book, readers will learn all about basketball's biggest stars! With exciting photos, interesting stats, and more, sports fans will find plenty to cheer about.
What happens first? What comes next? Introduce readers to simple sequences and processes by exploring animal life cycles, how plants grow, or how foods or products are made. Readers will be fascinated by these step-by-step accounts. Now in Spanish!
…Gol! El f£tbol es uno de los deportes mçs populares del mundo. Aprende c-mo se juega en esta introducci-n al juego en espaûol. Las fotograf’as dinçmicas de color interesa a los lectores, mientras que un diagrama les ayudarç a identificar las partes del campo de f£tbol. El texto y las preguntas de pensamiento cr’tico hacen que este t’tulo sea una excelente opci-n para los lectores principiantes de no ficci-n. Goal! Soccer is one of the world's most popular sports. Learn about how it's played in this Spanish-language introduction to the game. Dynamic full-color photographs will captivate readers, while a diagram helps them identify the parts of the soccer field. Carefully leveled text and age-appropriate critical thinking questions make this title an excellent choice for beginning nonfiction readers.
Con este texto los lectores aprenden todo sobre los chimpancÄs y su incre’ble hçbitat de selva tropical. Las fotograf’as de color dan un vistazo a la vida de un chimpancÄ mientras que las preguntas de pensamiento cr’tico y un glosario de fotos ayudan a los lectores de no ficci-n por primera vez. With this carefully leveled text, now in Spanish, readers learn all about chimpanzees and their incredible rain forest habitat. Full-color photographs give a glimpse into the life of a chimp while critical thinking questions and a photo glossary assist first-time nonfiction readers.
ÌDespegue. …Una biograf’a que llega mçs allç de las estrellas!ÊÑexcelente, Kirkus Reviews Mary Golda Ross trabajaba en muchos proyectos clasificados como ingeniera aeroespacial del siglo XX, y gran parte de lo que hizo sigue siendo secreto hasta el d’a de hoy. Sin embargo, su trabajo tuvo una importancia enorme para el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y rompi- las barreras como mujer cheroqui en un campo dominado por los hombres. Descubre la historia de c-mo una niûa enamorada de las matemçticas del noreste de Oklahoma abri- el camino para s’ misma y para las demçs, recurriendo a valores tradicionales cheroquis durante toda su carrera. Con una prosa atractiva e ilustraciones llamativas, la aclamada autora cheroqui Traci Sorell y la ilustradora mestiza ganadora de premios Natasha Donovan presentan un retrato cautivador de la vida y el trabajo de Mary Golda Ross. An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Picture Book ""A stellar addition to the genre that w
Las fotos vibrantes, el texto simple y los colores Crayola õ presentan a los lectores las diferentes maneras en que las culturas de todo el mundo usan el color en sus prendas, edificios y d’as festivos. Los lectores celebrarçn el color y la cultura en Holi y las muûecas rusas hasta el Aûo Nuevo chino y las canastas tejidas. …Ahora en espaûol!Vibrant photos, simple text, and Crayola õ colors introduce readers to the different ways cultures around the world use color in their clothing, buildings, and holidays. From Holi and Russian dolls to Chinese New Year and woven baskets, readers will celebrate color and culture as they begin to see how the colors we see and use every day have meaning and symbolism. Now available in Spanish!
‡C-mo se hacen los crayones? La cera transparente se derrite en una fçbrica. Una vez derretida, se le agrega color, se la vierte en moldes con la forma de crayones, se la deja enfriar y se la envuelve en etiquetas de papel. Los crayones de colores brillantes se ordenan en conjuntos, se los coloca en cajas y se los env’a a las tiendas en camiones para que puedas comprarlos. How are crayons made? Clear wax is melted in a factory. Once it's melted, color is added to it, it is poured into crayon-shaped molds, cooled, and wrapped in a paper label. Sorted into sets, the brightly colored crayons are boxed and sent in trucks to stores to be sold to you.
Explore las incre’bles caracter’sticas de China, incluyendo la Gran Muralla, la capital de Pek’n y mçs. Las fotograf’as de color y las preguntas de pensamiento cr’tico traen a China a la vida. Explore China's amazing features, including the Great Wall, the capital city of Beijing, and more. Now in Spanish, this book's carefully leveled text, full-color photographs, and age-appropriate critical thinking questions bring China to life.
‡QuÄ son los imanes? ‡Por quÄ se pueden encontrar imanes dentro de mçquinas como televisores, radios y telÄfonos? ‡QuÄ tienen que ver los çtomos y las part’culas diminutas que los conformanÑprotones, neutrones y electronesÑcon el magnetismo? Los imanes proporcionan fuerzas que tienen la capacidad de empujar o atraer otros objetos. Los experimentos fçciles de poner en prçctica ayudan a los lectores a analizar los principios centrales del magnetismo. What are magnets? Why are magnets found inside machines such as televisions, radios, and telephones? What do atoms and the tiny particles that make up atomsÑprotons, neutrons, and electronsÑhave to do with magnetism? Magnets provide forces that have the power to push or pull other objects. Easy-to-do experiments help readers explore the central principles of magnetism.
Los polic’as usan coches de la polic’a para ayudarnos a mantenernos a salvo. ‡C-mo funcionan los coches? Aprenda sobre los coches de la polic’a y los oficiales que los conducen en esta introducci-n en espaûol a la lectura de no ficci-n. Las fotograf’as de color aûaden interÄs visual, los diagramas ayudan a los lectores j-venes a identificar las partes de un coche de polic’a, y un glosario de fotos hace que el texto sea navegable. Police officers use police cars to help keep us safe. How do thee cars work? Learn about police cars and the officers who drive them in this Spanish-language introduction to nonfiction reading. Full-color photographs add visual interest, diagrams help young readers identify the parts of a police car, and a photo glossary makes the text navigable.
Galçpagos giant tortoises are fascinatingÑand endangered. They live only on the Galçpagos Islands, a chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador. These tortoises face threads from the humans who live onÑand visitÑthe islands as well as from Earth's warming climate. Join author Kate Messner on a journey to the Galçpagos Islands to see these incredible creatures up close and discover how cutting-edge technology is helping scientists to study and protect them. Text in Spanish.
There are many kinds of dances. People in different countries have their own special ways of dancing. They all have music to dance to. Some people like to sing as they dance. How do you like to dance?
Under the full moon, Abuela leads an enchanted dance, bows to the sky and the night winds, and helps her curious grandson discover the rhythm of his heartbeat while listening to the great secret of the plçtanos. At first his tiny ears couldn't hear it, but Abuela shares that she can't teach something that only her heart knows. This loving and tender story of the magical union between a grandmother and her grandson was penned by Dominican author, Luz Maria Mack, and inspired by a dream where she and her Abuela met again to dance and share the secrets of the plçtanos. Sometimes the secrets of life are written in nature, under the stars, and in the sounds of the whispering leaves. This translation of The Secret of the Plçtano brings a lovely intergenerational friendship to a Spanish-speaking audience.Bajo la luna llena, Abuela dirige un baile encantado y ayuda a su nieto curioso a descubrir el ritmo de los latidos de su coraz-n, mientras escucha el susurro de la brisa.l
En Njau, Gambia, las bolsas de plçstico se apilaban en montones horribles al costado de los caminos. El agua se estancaba en ellas y atra’a mosquitos y enfermedades. Mataban el ganado que intentaba comerlas. Algo ten’a que cambiar. Isatou Ceesay fue ese cambio. Encontr- una manera de reciclar las bolsas y transformar su comunidad. Esta historia real motivadora muestra c-mo las acciones de una persona pueden hacer una diferencia verdadera en nuestro mundo. ÌTexto simple pero l’rico, que narra este relato hermoso que invita a la reflexi-n sobre la conciencia ecol-gica y el reciclado . . . Una historia inspiradora.Ê