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This delightful book teaches readers about the world of baby animals by identifying animals that share the same names. Adorable photos feature pups (baby dogs and foxes), cubs (baby wolves and bears), and kids (baby goats and human children). An activity featuring photographs of animals asks children how many baby animal names they know.
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Families are built in many different ways. This interesting book describes the different members who make up a family including sisters and brothers, parents and stepparents, and grandparents. A creative activity asks children to write a book or a story about their families and add family photos.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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While most fish eggs become food for other animals, the male seahorse guards its eggs in a special pouch until they hatch! This exciting book explains the basic concept of the life cycle in an easy-to-understand way for children. Fascinating examples explain both plant and animal life including:
• insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and underwater life
• the process from seed or egg through birth, growth, reproduction, and death
•...
4) Baby Bunnies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children will love reading about different breeds of rabbits and how they raise their babies. This captivating introduction features wonderful photographs of both wild and pet rabbits as well as facts about their bodies, where they live, and their life cycle.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This book introduces dogs in the wild: how they are born, what makes them mammals, and how their mothers care for them and teach them how to hunt. Wild pups include wolves, foxes, dingoes, jackals, coyotes, and dholes. The pictures of these baby dogs are too wonderful for words! Children will love learning about these adorable candid carnivores.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Some of the topics covered in this book are bodies of water, the equator, poles, and hemispheres, latitude and longitude, urban and rural areas, landforms, extreme continents, and many more. This book certainly shows a different and fun way to study this important curriculum topic!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What is a Mammal? Teaches the basic rules as well as the exceptions that help children understand differences between mammals and other living things. Amazing full-color photographs feature a large variety of mammals including apes, elephants, rodents, and bats and help identify:
• those mammals that lay eggs
• mammals with a pouch
• placental mammals, such as humans
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Young readers are introduced to the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Each spread in this fun book features one sense. Simple text and close up photographs show children exploring their surroundings using that sense. An activity asks children to guess which foods on the page would taste sweet, sour, salty, or spicy.
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Captivating photos of baby alligators and crocodiles, raccoons, herons, opossums, turtles, and other animals show children which animals are found in wetlands across North America. Readers will get a close-up look at animals that live in the water as well as near it and discover how the animals' lives change as the seasons change. Food chains are also explained in a simple way.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Baby animals must know how to stay alive. The most important things every baby needs to know is how to find food and how to avoid predators. Some baby animals know these things by instinct, and others stay with their mothers until they can survive on their own. Baby birds learn how to fly, baby cats and bears learn how to climb trees, and turtle hatchlings cross-dangerous beaches to reach their ocean home. Baby predators wrestle and fight each other...
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This fun book is about animal behavior. It challenges students to guess what animals are doing and why. Topics include camouflage and mimicry, color changes, migration, animal senses and adaptations, courtship dances, care from mammal mothers, playing dead, scary body parts, tongue teasers, and some silly stuff to encourage story writing.
12) What is a Whale?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Whales are the only mammals that spend their entire life in the water. From playful dolphins to enormous blue whales, the behavior, habitats, and physiology of these amazing marine mammals are explored in What is a Whale? Spectacular full-color photos help show:
• flukes, flippers, and fins
• the whale family tree
• baleen and toothed whales
• how whales communicate through echolocation
• watery homes and what they eat
• baby whales
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Frogs begin their lives as tiny tadpoles living in water. As adults, they live both on land and in the water. The Life Cycle of a Frog details the changes in a frog at the four stages: egg, tadpole, froglet, and adult. Illustrations, photographs, and easy-to-read text explain:
• facts about how the frog breathes and eats at each stage
• differences in the metamorphosis of frogs in southern and northern climates
• dangers to frogs from pollution,...
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This fun book will motivate children to discuss, explain, and give creative interpretations about animal mysteries. Photographs present animals in some real and not-so-real ways. Students are challenged to remember what they have learned about the animal to determine if butterflies really do migrate; if human babies really are covered in feathers; and whether elephants do hatch from eggs. Realistic, entertaining photographs will require children to...
15) What is a Bear?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bears are the elegant giants of land carnivores. Powerful yet shy, these solitary creatures are remarkable for their size, strength, and adaptable intelligence. What is a Bear? gives children clear insight into the world of bears, including:
• the bear family tree
• special features of a bear's body
• how mothers care for their cubs
• the differences in bear diets
• their hunting techniques
16) What is a Horse?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children love horses! These powerful and exciting animals have roamed over the Earth for thousands of years. Today, there are more than 300 different breeds around the world! What is a Horse? explores the characteristics of horses and their equine relatives, including ponies, asses, and zebras. It is about horses - not riding. Beautiful, full-color photographs bring the clear, simple text to life. Topics include:
• horse physiology
• the horse...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Students will love learning about the way of life of raccoons and the challenges they face as babies and adults. An exciting narrative format supported by fun facts, questions, and activities, tells the story of one of the most adaptable animals on Earth. Raccoons eat almost anything, live in many kinds of habitats, including cities, can climb buildings as well as trees, and are able to change to overcome many challenges. This story follows a raccoon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A koala lives most of its life alone, eating and sleeping high up in the eucalyptus trees of Australia, and yet it is recognized and loved around the world. The Life Cycle of a Koala looks at the life of this ancient marsupial and explains:
• how marsupials are different from other mammals
• the birth of the koala and its life in its mother's pouch
• the growing koala and how it feeds
• life outside the pouch, but close to mother
• the dangers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the animal world, the easiest way to avoid being eaten is to avoid being seen. What are Camouflage and Mimicry? examines animals that use unique colorization to avoid their predators - or to sneak up on prey! So highly developed is the camouflage of some animals, that they are virtually impossible to see. Examples include:
• spots and stripes that blend into the shadows
• bright colors that warn of toxic poisons
• animals that look like rocks,...
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This beautiful book looks at different animal species, describing how they are similar and different, and why certain animals belong to specific groups. Using descriptive as well as compare-and-contrast text, this interesting book answers students' questions about different animals.
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