Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349831
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Climb the tallest mountain, dive into the deepest lake, and navigate the longest river in Steve Jenkins' stunning new book that explores the wonders of the natural world. With his striking cut paper collages, Jenkins majestically captures the grand sense of scale, perspective and awe that only mother earth can inspire.

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
An informative introduction to the "world records" held by fourteen members of the animal kingdom. Each spread portrays an animal that is the largest, slowest, longest lived. Readers can see the animal's size in relation to something familiar.

Extreme Scientists

Author: Donna M. Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618777068
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Profiles three extreme scientists who risk their lives to conduct research in some of the world's most intense environments, describing the experiences of scientists studying hurricanes, cave microbes, and forest canopies.

Inchworm and A Half

Author: Elinor J Pinczes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530625
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
What’s a fraction? A puzzled inchworm finds out when she enlists the aid of H-inch, N-inch, and G-inch worms in her quest to measure all the vegetables in their garden. New lengths bring new fractions to conquer, but the clever worms prove equal to every challenge, triumphantly munching their way through this tasty tale of math and measuring.

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606312998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Describes some of the remarkable places on earth, including the hottest, coldest, windiest, snowiest, highest, and deepest.

America's Champion Swimmer

Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152052515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
One woman's gritty determination to succeed

Solar System

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1328850978
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
"Through infographics and illustrations readers will learn about the topic of solar systems. Explore the galaxy that surrounds our planet through numbers, facts, and figures."--

Matching Books and Readers

Author: Nancy L. Hadaway
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1606238833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

Rocks in His Head

Author: Carol Otis Hurst
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060294035
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying, and labeling his rocks. The Depression forced the family to sell their gas station and their house, but his interest in rocks never wavered. And in the end the science museum he had visited so often realized that a person with rocks in his head was just what was needed. Anyone who has ever felt a little out of step with the world will identify with this true story of a man who followed his heart and his passion.

Penguin Chick

Author: Betty Tatham
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064452069
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
An emperor penguin lays an egg on the Antarctic ice. In the bitter cold, miles away from the only source of food, how can the chick survive?