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Termites and Other Home Wreckers - Children's Literature
Wood-boring insects have chewed on our planet since the days of the dinosaurs. They can eat through furniture, books, hard wood floors, and trees. These insects can eat people out of house and home, yet play an important role in preserving forest by decomposing wood and creating compost… View →
Feasting Bedbugs, Mites, and Ticks - Children's Literature
Tiny, even microscopic insects can make their home on our bodies. Some even live on human eyelashes! Ticks, bedbugs, and mites have feasted on humans and animals for millions of years but have become an increasing problem over the past decade. Section titles such as Sleep Tight!, Creepy… View →
Coastal Treasure Hunter - Children's Literature
Sand and seashells are not the only things found on coasts around the world. Waves have washed ashore a huge variety of items including MP3 players, motorbikes, and even a squid the length of a bus. This book takes readers on a journey to discover the many treasures that can be found on… View →
Vera Wang: A Passion for Bridal and Lifestyle Design - Children's Literature
In 1968 a major magazine featured an up-and coming teenager—Vera Wang. Ironically, that magazine wasn’t one that most Vera Wang fans would think of when they think of the iconic fashion designer. Instead, it was Sports Illustrated. The fact that she was quite a figure skater in her View →
Buzz off, Flies! - Children's Literature
Flies have swarmed our planet for over 200 million years and live everywhere people do. They spread germs and diseases but are also important pollinators and have been used for medicinal purposes. Flies have been around longer than humans and have managed to find their way into recipes,… View →
Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
A new series from Crabtree Books, Groundbreaker Biographies, includes sport figures, fashion designers, political activists and government figures. Two of the biographies are about Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court judge, and Dolores Huerta, a Latino activist who helped… View →
Suicide - Children's Literature
Teens have one of the highest rates of suicide, so this is certainly a critical topic to understand better. Chapters include discussion of contributing factors such as family problems, bullying, or sexual identity questions, as well as co-occurring disorders such as depression, substance View →
Ferrari - Children's Literature
This slight but glossy sixty-four page book is filled with the historical information, statistics, photographs, glossary and timeline of Enzo Ferrari’s legacy of sports car excellence. From a factory in Maranello, Italy to movie screens around the world, the Ferrari is a symbol of… View →
Alan and the Animals - Children's Literature
Part of the “Tadpoles” series, this Guided Reading Level B book entertains new readers with an amusing tale. The cover shows Alan with a frog on his head, a mouse in his pocket and a dog-like critter’s paws resting on his chest. Alan loves bats and rats and even has ten View →
What Is the Theory of Plate Tectonics? - Children's Literature
Can the surface of the Earth really be on the move? Understanding natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes has been a goal of scientific study of the Earth from the time of the Greeks to the present day. But the Theory of Plate Tectonics wasn’t established until the 1960s.… View →
What Is the Theory of Evolution? - School Library Journal
Gr 5–8—Scientific theories and laws are thoroughly defined and put into context with plenty of background and historical knowledge. Readers will find enough information to appreciate the many scientific advances that we enjoy today and see the potential for future progress. These titles… View →
What Is the Theory of Evolution? - Children's Literature
What if your life’s work involved developing a theory about a subject that ran contrary to what most people believed? What if it inspired a controversy that continues for decades? Such was the contribution of Charles Darwin, in his work on evolution. Joining other scientists who… View →
Division - Children's Literature
Learning to solve math problems is made easier by using examples that children can easily understand. In this explanation of division, Charlie and his stepfather are off to the school carnival. They use the grouping method based on looking at items as an array. The book also introduces… View →
Big Cat - Children's Literature
Part of the “Tadpoles” series, this Guided Reading Level C book entertains new readers with an amusing tale. Cats and mice are natural enemies—predator and prey—so it is not expected that they would be friends. The story opens with a large cat playing or really terrorizing a… View →
George the Knight - Children's Literature
Part of the “Tadpoles” series, this Guided Reading Level C book entertains new readers with an amusing tale. George has decided that he will be a knight. He has a tunic with a crest on it and used a paper bag to make a helmet. Someone who appears to be an older brother lets… View →
How to Tell a Legend - Children's Literature
Each book in this series follows the same format as it examines one aspect of the oral tradition .This one begins with a definition of a legend and its origins and follows that with two legends, “The Legend of Johnny Appleseed” and “The Legend of King Arthur.”… View →
How to Tell a Fable - Children's Literature
Each book in this series follows the same format as it examines one aspect of the oral tradition. Fables are defined as stories handed down from generation to generation in which animals act like humans and contain a moral or lesson that help a reader understand human nature. The story… View →
How do animals change? - Children's Literature
The table of contents indicates that there is a lot of information in this book. Young readers learn about various animals that hatch from eggs and that some of these animals are completely on their own once they have hatched. Other animals are born and these animals are fed milk from… View →
Reptile rap - Children's Literature
Reptiles are introduced through rap verses and humorous photographs. Generalized information about alligators, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles is followed with specific facts about each species. Scaly skins and the exchange of old skin for new is described and illustrated.… View →
How do living things find food? - Children's Literature
First we learn what defines a living thing and understand that they need air, water and food. It is the food that provides the energy to grow. Plants are living things that make their own energy through a process called photosynthesis. Animals who eat just plants are called herbivores… View →
How are they the same? - Children's Literature
“Words to Know” is the first section in this early reader and it is really a picture glossary of six words. All of the animals on the brightly colored cover share something in common. The glossary shows the stripes on the fish depicted on the cover. The text is interactive… View →
Re-Greening the Environment: Careers in Cleanup, Remediation, and Restoration - Children's Literature
One of eight entries in the “Green-Collar Careers” series, this title focuses on careers in environmental cleanup, remediation and restoration. The five chapters utilize a magazine-type layout with multiple color photos and illustrations that will appeal to upper elementary… View →
Bean's Life - Children's Literature
Part of the “Crabtree Connections” series, this title is categorized as a recount book and it introduces the life cycle of a bean, specifically the fava bean. A bean is a seed and the story starts with the planting of a bean and then describes and depicts how it grows roots… View →
Legally Green: Careers in Environmental Law - Children's Literature
One of eight in the “Green-Collar Careers” series, this edition focuses on careers in the relatively recent area of environmental law. The five chapters utilize a magazine-type layout with multiple color photos that will appeal to upper elementary and middle school students. View →