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Author:Melissa Stewart
5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books
Once upon a time...children's nonfiction books were stodgy, concise, and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy, with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning, rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years, children's nonfiction has evolved into a...- $39.30
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A Place for Bats
Did you know that almost a third of the world's 1,300 species of bats are in serious trouble? Chased from their caves and forests, sickened by cave-dwelling fungi, and swept from the skies by wind turbines, bats have no place to hide. And human...- $16.95
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A Place for Bats
Did you know that almost a third of the world's 1,300 species of bats are in serious trouble? Chased from their caves and forests, sickened by cave-dwelling fungi, and swept from the skies by wind turbines, bats have no place to hide. And human...- $7.99
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A Place for Birds
North America has almost three billion fewer birds now than it had fifty years ago. It may be hard to believe, but birds are in danger, and they are calling for our help. Sadly, humans are often the source of the harm! What can...- $7.99
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A Place for Butterflies
Once abundant monarch butterflies are disappearing in the United States, but that's only part of the story. Many other butterfly species are also in trouble, and human action is often the cause of their plight. What can we do to help protect this important...- $7.99
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A Place for Butterflies (Third Edition)
The latest updated edition of this fact-filled, colorful look at the amazing world of butterflies, which includes two brand new illustrations and a call to action to protect these creatures and their habitats. In simple yet informative language, A Place for Butterflies introduces young...- $18.99
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A Place for Frogs
The population of frogs in the United States has been declining for the past fifty years, even in our protected national parks. What dangers do frogs face? How can we help? In simple yet engaging language, acclaimed science writer Melissa Stewart showcases twelve types...- $7.99
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A Place for Turtles
Turtles outlived the dinosaurs, but today they are one of the most threatened species of vertebrae on Earth. How can we help? In simple yet engaging language, acclaimed science writer Melissa Stewart showcases twelve types of North American turtles, from the familiar box turtle...- $7.99
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A Place for Turtles
Turtles outlived the dinosaurs, but today they are one of the most threatened species of vertebrae on Earth. How can we help? In simple yet engaging language, acclaimed science writer Melissa Stewart showcases twelve types of North American turtles, from the familiar box turtle...- $16.95
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A Seed Is the Start
Beautiful photography and lyrical text pair with comprehensive picture captions in award-winning author Melissa Stewart's story about the surprisingly diverse world of seeds. Learn all about the plant cycle, from how seeds grow, the fascinating ways they travel, and what it takes for a...- $27.90
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A Seed Is the Start
Beautiful photography and lyrical text pair with comprehensive picture captions in award-winning author Melissa Stewart's story about the surprisingly diverse world of seeds. Learn all about the plant cycle, from how seeds grow, the fascinating ways they travel, and what it takes for a...- $17.99
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Alligator or Crocodile?: How Do You Know?
Alligators and crocodiles may look the same to you, but you might be surprised to learn just how different these animals are. Readers get a close up look at the differences between these animals with brilliant color photographs. This appealing new book will show...- $10.35
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Author:Melissa Stewart
Amazing Eyes Up Close
Do your readers know that honeybees have more than two eyes? Or that a giant squid's eyes are bigger than dinner plates? This book helps readers to learn all about how animals use their eyes to look for food and to stay safe.Author: Melissa...- $10.35
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Author:Melissa Stewart
Beneath the Sun
This lyrical tour of a variety of habitats offers young readers vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the hot season under the blazing sun. When the sun is shining brightly, people put on sunscreen or scurry inside to cool off. But how...- $7.99
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Author:Melissa Stewart
Bird-Acious, 6
BIRD-ACIOUS takes the fun, fully-illustrated approach of the Science with Stuff series on our feathered friends. This info-taining 48-page book comes complete with an owl pellet for kids to dissect. Science with Stuff books bring science to life with a real natural treasure that...- $11.99
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Butterflies
Outstanding nature photography and thorough information combine to make this a perfect purchase for the most curious readers Butterflies are perennially popular because of their exotic beauty and the interesting process of metamophosis. These books focus on commonalities, as well as interesting differences among...- $7.95
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Butterfly or Moth?: How Do You Know?
How can you tell a butterfly from a moth? What is the difference? With colorful photographs and simple language, author Melissa Stewart shows young readers how to identify these animals using critical thinking skills. Readers find all the tips and hints they need to...- $10.35
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Can an Aardvark Bark?
From award-winning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree Steve Jenkins comes a noisy nonfiction exploration of the many sounds animals make. Can an aardvark bark? No, but it can grunt. Lots of other animals grunt too... Barks, grunts, squeals--animals make all kinds of sounds...- $17.99
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Author:Melissa Stewart
Deadly Predators
Come face-to-face with sharks, wolves, tigers, and many more predators in this gripping new addition to the National Geographic Kids Reader series. Amazing animal photos will wow kids as they discover how predators hunt, raise their young, and contribute to the food chain. This...- $13.90
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Droughts
Read and find out about droughts in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.The earth--and everything on it--needs water. But lately, it's been unusually sunny, warm, and dry. The weather anchor announces that your area is experiencing a drought! Where do droughts happen? How do...- $17.99
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Droughts
Read and find out about droughts in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.The earth--and everything on it--needs water. But lately, it's been unusually sunny, warm, and dry. The weather anchor announces that your area is experiencing a drought! Where do droughts happen? How do...- $6.99
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Feathers: Not Just for Flying
Young naturalists explore sixteen birds in this elegant introduction to the many, remarkable uses of feathers. A concise main text highlights how feathers are not just for flying. More curious readers are invited to dig deeper with informative sidebars that underscore how feathers of...- $7.95
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Fishes (a True Book: Animals)
Discover the basic behavior, physical traits, and life cycle of fishes.A True Book: Animals series introduces young investigative readers to animal species, their habitats, unique abilities as well as an up-close look at the dangers these animals face today and find out how humans...- $6.95
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Fourteen Monkeys: A Rain Forest Rhyme
Travel to a tropical rainforest where fourteen species of monkeys live in harmony in this playful, fact-filled book from award-winning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree Steve Jenkins. In Man National Park in Peru, an amazing fourteen different species of monkeys live together. That's...- $17.99
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Frog or Toad?: How Do You Know?
One has wet skin. The other is dry and bumpy. One is thin and lean and the other is fat and round. One is a frog and one is a toad. Do you know which animal is which? Author Melissa Stewart guides readers through...- $10.35
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How Do Bees Make Honey?
Presents a basic explanation of the scientific principles behind how and why bees manufacture honey.Author: Melissa StewartISBN-10: 0761429239ISBN-13: 9780761429234Publisher: Cavendish Square PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2009Pages: 32Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 8.20w x 0.30dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 01/01/2009 pg. 96- $31.93
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How Does a Bone Become a Fossil?
How do minerals collect in ancient bones? Why are fish fossils sometimes found on land? How can some feathers be preserved for millions of years? This series explores the causes and effects that shape our world. From the underwater volcanoes that sprout into islands,...- $8.29
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How Does a Seed Sprout?: And Other Questions about Plants
What is a seed--and will all of them eventually become plants? What happens to plants in winter? Why do leaves come in so many sizes and shapes? Do insects help plants, or harm them? A virtual garden of information grows here for young readers...- $6.95
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How Is My Brain Like a Supercomputer?: And Other Questions About... the Human Body
Why do I have a belly button? What happens to the food I eat? Why am I different from everyone else on Earth? All children want to understand how their body works, and this lively illustrated book explains it all, from what DNA is...- $5.95
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Hurricane Watch
Read and find out about how hurricanes form, how scientists track the storms, and what you can do to keep yourself safe if one strikes in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.Winds whip. Waves crash. Rain pours down. A superstorm moves across the ocean...- $17.99
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Hurricane Watch
Read and find out about how hurricanes form, how scientists track the storms, and what you can do to keep yourself safe if one strikes in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.Winds whip. Waves crash. Rain pours down. A superstorm moves across the ocean...- $6.99
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Ick!: Delightfully Disgusting Animal Dinners, Dwellings, and Defenses
Animals--they're cute and fluffy, cuddly and puffy, and ... sometimes downright disgusting. Get ready to be totally grossed out as you discover the incredibly icky ways animals eat, make their homes, and defend themselves.From award-winning author Melissa Stewart comes the grossest journey through the...- $14.99
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Ick!: Delightfully Disgusting Animal Dinners, Dwellings, and Defenses
Animals--they're cute and fluffy, cuddly and puffy, and ... sometimes downright disgusting. Get ready to be totally grossed out as you discover the incredibly icky ways animals eat, make their homes, and defend themselves. From award-winning author Melissa Stewart comes the grossest journey through...- $24.90
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Insect or Spider?: How Do You Know?
A bug scurries across the floor in front of you. Or is it a bug at all? Do you know how to tell the difference between an insect and a spider? Readers will learn the tips for telling which animal is which. Appealing color...- $10.35
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Mega-Predators of the Past
Award-winning nonfiction author and science specialist Melissa Stewart offers young readers a mega-exploration of little-known prehistoric predators that rival even the mightiest of dinosaurs! It is time for T. rex and his dinosaur cousins to step aside and let other mega-predators like the terror...- $17.99
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Meteors
Blast off on a trip to discover the fascinating world of meteors. In this image-packed book, kids will learn all about these objects hurtling through space--and into our atmosphere. This level 3 reader is written in an easy-to-grasp style to encourage the scientists and...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Ants
Ants are everywhere. They creep, they crawl, they climb, and they fall. But they get up and they keep on working. Ants come in all different shapes, different sizes, and different colors. And they do a lot of different jobs. These hard-working little creatures...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Ants
Ants are everywhere. They creep, they crawl, they climb, and they fall. But they get up and they keep on working. Ants come in all different shapes, different sizes, and different colors. And they do a lot of different jobs. These hard-working little creatures...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Deadliest Animals
Did you know that a tiny golf ball-sized creature called the blue-ringed octopus contains enough venom to kill 26 adult humans? Or why the Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most dangerous creatures in the world? In this Level 3 book, kids...- $13.90
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National Geographic Readers: Deadliest Animals
Did you know that a tiny golf ball-sized creature called the blue-ringed octopus contains enough venom to kill 26 adult humans? Or why the Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most dangerous creatures in the world? In this Level 3 book, kids...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Dolphins
Everyone loves the smile on a dolphin's face. Though smart enough to become theme park tricksters, dolphins are first and foremost wild mammals. Melissa Stewart's lively text outlines our responsibility to conserve their natural environment. This high-interest book also offers an interactive experience to...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Dolphins
Everyone loves the smile on a dolphin's face. Though smart enough to become theme park tricksters, dolphins are first and foremost wild mammals. Melissa Stewart's lively text outlines our responsibility to conserve their natural environment. This high-interest book also offers an interactive experience to...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Las Hormigas (L1)
AHORA EN ESPA OL Las hormigas se encuentran en todas partes. Y ya que los ni os est n siempre cerca de la tierra, muchas veces son ellas el primer animal que observan y estudian - a veces con la intensidad de cient ficos...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Meteors
Blast off on a trip to discover the fascinating world of meteors. In this image-packed book, kids will learn all about these objects hurtling through space--and into our atmosphere. This level 3 reader is written in an easy-to-grasp style to encourage the scientists and...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Predator Face-Off
Find out what happens when predator is pitted against predator in this exciting, informative reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information about some of the world's most amazing creatures for beginning readers.Author: Melissa StewartISBN-10: 1426328125ISBN-13: 9781426328121Publisher: National Geographic KidsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages:...- $13.90
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National Geographic Readers: Predator Face-Off
Find out what happens when predator is pitted against predator in this exciting, informative reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information about some of the world's most amazing creatures for beginning readers.Author: Melissa StewartISBN-10: 1426328117ISBN-13: 9781426328114Publisher: National Geographic KidsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages:...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Snakes!
They're SSSSLITHERY! SLIPPERY! They creep us out! But get to know them and you'll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Snakes!
They're SSSSLITHERY SLIPPERY They creep us out But get to know them and you'll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on...- $4.99
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National Geographic Readers: Titanic
Get kids reading with cool information about the subjects that interest them the most. National Geographic Readers are high-interest, exciting, and easy to read. The latest in the series, Titanic is no exception. Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Olympic-class passenger...- $14.90
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National Geographic Readers: Titanic
Get kids reading with cool information about the subjects that interest them the most. National Geographic Readers are high-interest, exciting, and easy to read. The latest in the series, Titanic is no exception. Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Olympic-class passenger...- $4.99
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