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How Big is Big? How Far is Far?
Jan Van Der Veken · Little Gestalten
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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Imaginative comparisons help children comprehend various units of measure. How fast is 120 kilometers per hour? How heavy are 4 tons? How loud are 150 decibels? Units of measure are abstract--until, that is, they are contrasted with other quantities. The entertaining juxtapositions in How Big is Big?... |
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Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children's Literature
Valerie Bang-Jensen · Heinemann
Pages: 137
Format: Paperback
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Science is everywhere, in everything we do, see, and read. Books-all books-offer possibilities for talk about science in the illustrations and text once you know how to look for them. Children's literature is a natural avenue to explore the seven crosscutting concepts described in the Next... |
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Super Simple Experiments with Electricity: Fun and Innovative Science Projects
Paige V Polinsky · Super Sandcastle
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Super Simple Experiments with Electricity gives young readers the tools they need to start experimenting. Budding scientists will learn to create lightning using a pencil, make a penny?powered battery, and more! Each project has easy?to?read directions paired with step?by?step photographs,... |
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Rick and Rachel Build a Research Report
Sue Lowell Gallion · Norwood House Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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"Rick has to write his first research report and Rachel helps him. They go to the library and on line to find information about the endangered African Black Rhino. Concepts include; revising, scanning and using reliable sources. Activities in the back help the reader organize and write... |
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African Animals
Martha E. H. Rustad · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Book
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Trumpeting elephants! Towering giraffes! Discover the animals slithering, stalking, and stampeding through the jungles and grasslands of Africa. |
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Tanker Trucks
Norman D. Graubart · PowerKids Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tanker trucks carry huge amounts of liquidsfrom gasoline to water. These trucks are designed specifically for the liquids they carry. If a tanker truck needs to get milk from one place to another, then it was built to keep that milk cold, too. Young readers learn about tanker trucks as they... |
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Pig & Goose and the First Day of Spring
Rebecca Bond · Charlesbridge
Pages: 48
Format: Print book
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In this early reader with five short chapters, emerging readers meet Pig and Goose. Pig is happy. She loves to dance. She loves to eat. But she cannot fly. And she cannot swim. Goose can fly like a bird. Goose can glide across the water beautifully. But he cannot tell stories or host a party... |
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Electric Eel
Ellen Lawrence · Bearport Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding
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A long, snakelike creature moves slowly through the waters of a muddy river in the Amazon rain forest. It's an electric eel on the hunt. The hungry creature swims closer to a large piranha. As it nears its prey, the predatory eel releases a burst of electricity. Six hundred volts of power... |
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Prissy & Pop Deck the Halls
Melissa Nicholson · Harpercollins
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Deck the halls with Instagram sensations Prissy and Pop (@prissy_pig) in their second photographic picture book adventure!It's Christmastime, and Prissy and Pop are preparing for Santa's arrival. They're trimming the tree, baking cookies, and singing carols. But wait - they... |
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Simple Machines: Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys
David A. Adler · Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our lives.Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which... |
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The Mystery of the Missing Lion: A Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers
Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor
Format: Book
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A detective in the wild. Young Precious gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-lion named Teddy, who is starring in a film. When Teddy disappears,... |
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Pet Parrots Up Close
Karon Dubke · Capstone Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pet parrots have cool body parts that wink, squawk, and glide. Take an up close look at these talkative, fine feathered friends., |
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Pinkerton, Behave!
Steven Kellogg · Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC,
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Pinkerton doesn't understand his owner's commands. When told to come, he jumps out the window. When asked to fetch, he destroys the slippers instead. Pinkerton's desperate owners take him to obedience school, but he flunks out in record time. Then one night a burglar breaks... |
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Don't Call Me Fat!: A First Look at Being Overweight
Pat Thomas · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Book
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Psychotherapist and counselor Pat Thomas puts her gentle, yet straightforward approach to work in this new addition to Barron's highly acclaimed A First Look At...Series. This book explores why someone might be overweight, gives advice on fitness and diet, and discusses how some people... |
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