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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Imagine a career where you get paid to draw all day. That's what botanical illustrators do! Get inside the mind of a botanical illustrator, and learn how their intricate drawings of plants help science. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds students' reading skills while engaging their curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Nature is not always kind. Natural disasters like earthquakes and storms can wipe out cities. Entire cultures and their histories are at risk of being lost. When disaster strikes, some people work to save cultural items. They preserve culture for the future! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds students' reading skills while engaging their curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Engineers design things that affect our everyday lives. You can thank an engineer for your phone, the lights in your home, and your transportation to school. The work that engineers do influences almost everything around us and helps solve problems for people around the world. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this nonfiction book focuses on STEM topics and builds literacy skills. It includes essential text features like an...
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From a tiny seed to a towering tree, plants reproduce and carry on generations in the most amazing ways. Learn the "how" and "why" about plant reproduction in this intriguing e-book. Filled with engaging diagrams and interesting facts, students will get an in-depth look at how plant reproduction works and why each plant is quite different. High-interest text and vibrant images and photographs fill the pages of this e-book to make learning about plant...
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Español
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Callie and her friends are off to spend a week at critter camp. Not only will they learn how to take care of zoo animals, they'll also learn division along the way! This book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. Students will learn division while engaged in reading about their favorite zoo animals. The glossary, index, and table of contents will...
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Learn all about the amazing things your brain does and how to keep it healthy and strong! Readers will discover the anatomy of the brain including neurons, the cerebellum, and the nervous system. Using vibrant images and informational text in conjunction with supportive diagrams, readers are encouraged to learn all about (and use) their brains.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This informational text is packed with facts and sidebars about historical and modern-day disasters such as the Space Shuttle Challenger, the Great Smog of London, the Pacific Garbage Patch, the Library of Alexandria, Chernobyl, and more. Featuring TIME© content and images, the high-interest content will engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and reading skills. Text features, a Reader's Guide, and the extended...
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Learn all about the incredible things your heart, lungs, arteries, and circulatory system do and how to keep them healthy and strong! With vibrant images and informational text in conjunction with supportive diagrams and stimulating facts, readers are introduced to basic biology and vocabulary.
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Español
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Los científicos están aprendiendo a mantener secas a las personas en climas húmedos. Buscan respuestas en plantas y animales. Han aprendido que cuando se trata de mantenerse secos, ¡la naturaleza sabe más! Creado en colaboración con la Institución Smithsonian, este libro de STEAM despertará la curiosidad sobre los temas de STEAM a través de ejemplos del mundo real. Presenta un desafío STEAM práctico que es perfecto para espacios de creación...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Some of the most powerful things in the world are so tiny they can't be seen with the naked eye! Readers will be amazed at what they see when they take a glance at the world of the mini but mighty through this captivating nonfiction title. With remarkable images and graphics, and informational text featuring Time For Kids© content, readers are able to explore and discover such micros as DNA, atoms, bacteria, phytoplankton, and nanotechnology items...
12) Living in Space
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Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous nonfiction reader. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during their free time through vivid photographs, interesting, informative text, and stimulating facts.
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Telescopes and high-tech equipment help astronomers explore deep space. This captivating title introduces readers to some of the most notable scientists who helped develop technology that allows for space exploration, such as Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Annie Cannon, George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The vibrant, stunning images and easy-to-read text will have readers engaged and eager to learn more about such topics...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What does swimming in a pool, drinking through a straw, breathing in air, and circulating blood all have in common? They all require a form of air or water pressure! Readers will discover the variety of ways that air and water pressure make an impact on our lives. This fact-filled nonfiction title includes real-life examples, vivid images, helpful graphs and diagrams, and basic experiments to help students begin to understand physics concepts. Readers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this stimulating nonfiction book, readers will discover the various types of friction--including rolling friction, sliding friction, fluid friction, and static friction--and the huge impacts it has on nature, machines, and our lives. In addition, readers are encouraged to perform basic experiments to assist in the understanding of friction, kinetic energy, and water resistance. With real-life examples, colorful images, accommodating graphs and...
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Learn about outer space exploration, from the Hubble telescope to the latest space shuttle launches, in this delightful nonfiction title! Readers will learn about famous astronauts, the history of exploring space, and what the future holds for space exploration through vivid images and photographs, informative text, and intriguing facts. With a glossary and index, readers will want to learn all they can about exploring space!
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This book teaches students important principles of volume and mass that they will be able to use in their daily lives, introducing them to new concepts and vocabulary terms like liter, kilogram, matter, and the metric system. Students will learn volume and mass through everyday examples including measuring food, weighing the contents of a backpack, feeding pets, and calculating how much water to drink per day. This math reader integrates math and...
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What do zebras and ostriches have in common with clownfish and sea anemones? They're both examples of interdependent relationships! Students will learn about helpful partnerships in the animal kingdom as they multiply their way through fractions. By integrating math and literacy skills, this math reader makes multiplying fractions simple, relevant, and fun, and the real-world examples of problem solving allow students to explore the concepts in meaningful...
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Español
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This Spanish book teaches students important principles of volume and mass that they will be able to use in their daily lives, introducing them to new concepts and vocabulary terms like liter, kilogram, matter, and the metric system. Students will learn volume and mass through everyday examples including measuring food, weighing the contents of a backpack, feeding pets, and calculating how much water to drink per day. This math reader integrates math...
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Español
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This Spanish book introduces students to the unique geography of the United States. Detailed images in conjunction with easy-to-read text provide readers with an inviting reading and learning experience as they build social studies knowledge. This nonfiction book for 3rd grade students includes basic informational text features including a glossary, an index, and table of contents.
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