"This beginning reader helps young people explore the heat and beauty of the world's sandy deserts! Using text aimed at emergent readers, each book also features vocabulary specific to its place in the world. Colorful photos make exploring fun!"-- Provided by publisher.

This book introduces early readers to animals that live in the North and South Poles. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.

Using helpful charts, graphs, informational text in conjunction with vivid images and intriguing facts, this fun and engaging title allows early elementary readers to explore the ecosystem, plants, and animals of the deserts around the world.

Learn what happened during the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave system in Thailand. Fully decodable text features high-frequency words and offers a review of words with short vowels. Also features tips for teachers and caregivers along with additional information at the end to build the reader's background knowledge of the topic. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.

I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a young reader and an adult. Do you wonder about all of Earth's living things? Do you know what plants and animals are found in different places? In this book, learn about the five major biomes found on our planet.

"Explores the different roles each organism (from Hawaiian cane toads to humans, or even the soil) plays to maintain Earth's ecosystems."-- Publisher's website. Presents a general introduction to ecosystems and food webs, as well as looking at biodiversity, its importance, and the threats that ecosystems face.

Readers learn all about tropical and temperate rainforests and the differences between these two unique biomes. Rainforests are filled with wonder and mystery, from the tall trees in the canopy to the dark and damp leaves on the forest floor. The plants and animals that inhabit these rainforests are varied and exotic. They depend on the rainforest, as does the rest of the world.

Life on Earth is endlessly amazing and complex. Learn about food chains with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Reviewed Life on Earth is endlessly amazing and complex. Learn...

Deserts may seem like harsh, uninhabitable places, but actually they support a diverse quantity of plant and animal life. And, they aren't always hot! Deserts serve an important role in Earth's existence, too. Readers learn about hot and cold deserts alike, as well as semi-arid and coastal deserts. From the Horned Lizard to the Saguaro cactus rooted in rich soil, the desert biome will amaze readers.

In this adventurous title, readers learn all about plate tectonics! A brief history of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift introduces readers to the development of plate tectonics and how it helped form the Earth we know today. Through colorful images, helpful charts and graphs, and easy-to-read text, readers will discover such fascinating topics as magnetic pole reversal, divergent and convergent plate boundaries, the ocean-continental division,...