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Move Your Body: A Kid's Guide to Fitness - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
These books promote a variety of sports to encourage readers to exercise. . .[and] the large font and simple sentence structure will aid new readers. Colorful photographs show children participating in each sport. View →
Xtreme Races - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
After a short history of the individual race, the author launches into rules and traditions of the specific sport. The texts are attractively arranged around black-and-white and vibrant color photos. “Xtreme Fact” text boxes offer additional facts. . . . In each volume, a spread focuses… View →
Let's Measure More - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
These small books cover many different measurements in a concise fashion. Distance, weight, area, volume, time, and metric measurements are discussed. After an introduction, each topic is given a spread; a description is clearly written in a few sentences on the left and an example… View →
Essential Events - Booklist
The publisher’s indispensable Essential Lives and Essential Viewpoints sets find a worthy successor in these in-depth, well-documented starting points for research. View →
Foundations of Our Nation – School Library Journal
This series focuses on the building blocks of the United States. Five chapters in each book describe causes, pivotal moments, and turning points of important events. Viewpoints from opposing sides are offered as well. Information is presented in a succinct, age-appropriate style.… View →
Great Warriors - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Each title opens with an account of a dramatic battle or operation, followed by chapters about its featured warriors’ history, recruitment and training, weapons and tactics, and lifestyle. The volumes are clearly designed and written with the Common Core State Standards in mind. The… View →
Hot Topics in Media - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
By providing different arguments about contemporary issues, this series, which is designed to align with the CCSS, asks readers to think critically and evaluate alternative points of view. . . . The clean design integrates textual and visual (charts, graphs,… View →
Science in the Real World - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Finely tuned to the needs and methods of a CCSS-based curriculum, these explanations of some aspect of the physical world intersperse a main text with recaps and review or study questions every few pages. The narratives are divided into easily manageable sections, and the clean design… View →
Super Simple Body Set 1 – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Each volume explains its subject’s location, parts, and function. Oversize text in short paragraphs; “Fast Facts” text boxes; kid-friendly, tongue-in-cheek headings, such as “Passing Gasses” (Lungs); and guiding questions keep the content engaging. The controlled vocabulary uses… View →
Cool Recipes for Your Health – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
It’s not impossible for kids with dietary restrictions to find recipes in general-interest children’s cookbooks, but it’s not easy, either. These titles are a welcome addition. Each one features eight medium-to-easy recipes paired with color photos and bracketed by information about the… View →
Asian Animals – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
This well-designed set is a commendable introduction to six Asian animals–both familiar, such as tigers, and lesser-known, such as sloth bears. Each book starts off with a general introduction to Asia (which includes a spread that highlights geographical and cultural facts about the… View →
American Revolution – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Events are presented in a straightforward style that still manages to convey the author’s enthusiasm for the subject. Readers are immersed in the time period; facts and figures abound. Details include battle-by-battle statistics (the number of soldiers deployed, casualties, etc.) for… View →
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