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Cover: Where Materials Come From

Where Materials Come From series - Booklist

Kids are constantly bombarded with messages reminding them to recycle and be mindful about consuming natural resources. This series, Where Materials Come From (4 titles), helps readers make connections among everyday products and the raw materials used to create them. The titles share… View →

 
Cover: Oil to Plastic

Where Materials Come From series - Booklist

Kids are constantly bombarded with messages reminding them to recycle and be mindful about consuming natural resources. This series, Where Materials Come From (4 titles), helps readers make connections among everyday products and the raw materials used to create them. The titles share… View →

 
Cover: Rocks and Minerals to Aluminum

Where Materials Come From series - Booklist

Kids are constantly bombarded with messages reminding them to recycle and be mindful about consuming natural resources. This series, Where Materials Come From (4 titles), helps readers make connections among everyday products and the raw materials used to create them. The titles share… View →

 
Cover: Fish

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →

 
Cover: Insects

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →

 
Cover: Mammals

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →

 
Cover: Measuring Things

Measuring Things series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles introduce the basics of measurement to very young readers. Easily understandable text explores time, temperature, and other quantifiable characteristics. Photos show various children using tools for tasks, such as a tape measure to find the length of a board and a stopwatch… View →

 
Cover: Reptiles

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →

 
Cover: Respiratory System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Skeletal System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Digestive System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Muscular System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Circulatory System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Nervous System

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: Investigating the Respiratory System

Investigating Body Systems series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

This is a great choice for middle and high school libraries as a resource for health and biology coursework. View →

 
Cover: Nations of North America

Nations of North America series - School Library Journal

Nations of North America series (Seahorse/Lighthouse) is a very fine, informative, and respectful series about six North American nations. View →

 
Cover: Extreme Sports

Extreme Sports series - School Library Journal

Ideally, for beginners, each book in this series begins with a basic one-page description of its extreme sport, followed by explanations of the different ways people have modified and personalized the sport for necessity, fun, or challenge. Each entry also focuses on the potential career View →

 
Cover: Look into the Human Body

Look into the Human Body series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These titles complement health topics and would be a great fit for classrooms and school libraries. View →

 
Cover: My Phonics Readers - I See My Consonant Teams

My Phonics Readers - I See My Consonant Teams - School Library Journal

These books provide an effective and hands-on method for beginning readers to recognize consonant teams, though they lack some visual interest. View →

 
Cover: Investigating Body Systems

Investigating the Nervous System - Booklist

Part of the Investigating Body Systems series (4 titles), this introduction to the nervous system covers a lot of ground. In five chapters, the book lays out what the central and peripheral nervous system are, the basics of how they work, a brief history of neuroscience, diseases or… View →

 
Cover: We Read about Citizenship

We Read about the Amphibian Life Cycle - Booklist

This entry in the I Read! You Read! series (20 titles) offers a brief introduction to some characteristics of amphibians and stages in their life cycle. Designed for shared reading between a beginning reader and an adult, color-coded text boxes and symbols indicate whose turn it is to… View →

 
Cover: My State

Booklist - Colorado

Crisp photos of the titular state’s iconic mountains are a particularly appealing feature of this entry in the My State series (20 titles), which aims to introduce basic state facts as well as conventional nonfiction components to emerging readers. A cartoon kid, Jake, takes… View →

 
Cover: Members of the Animal Kingdom

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →

 
Cover: Birds

Members of the Animal Kingdom series - School Library Journal, Spring 2023 Series Made Simple

These well-organized introductions to animal kingdoms feature clear language and effective visual content. Opening chapters provide general information about animal classification, followed by facts about the primary characteristics within the featured kingdom. Appealing and accessible… View →