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Essential Events Set 4, Essential Events Set 5 – VOYA
Essential Events is a high quality, easy-to-navigate series on topics that often have cumbersome, thick books. This series has clear, concise language, wonderful photos, and clarifying sidebars that further define and explain some of the historical people, events, or concepts.… View →
Cool Health & Fitness - Horn Book Guide
Geared toward third graders, these books relate the importance of exercise, proper hygiene, healthy eating, and avoiding stress, while offering activity ideas for doing so (directions for homemade body wash in Body, nutritious recipes in Eating, etc.). Introductory pages… View →
Lives Cut Short Set 2 - School Library Journal
These books trace the lives of pop-culture notables from childhood to their sudden deaths, and the personal and professional triumphs and troubles in between. The narrative history has an informative tone, balancing opinions and quotes from the subjects and insiders close to them, and… View →
Lives Cut Short Set 2 – Booklist
The dependable Lives Cut Short series adds. . .titles featuring celebrities who died prematurely. Each begins with a poignant quote from the late celeb, such as this from Marilyn Monroe: “You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” View →
Extreme Senses (Sensing Their Prey) – Booklist
Using color with subtlety, Wald’s soft-edged, simplified illustrations and diagrams help readers visualize the creatures and processes described. View →
Military Ships – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Each of these titles describes the purpose, components, and history of one type of ship. . . . The glossaries have lengthy and helpful descriptions of new words. . . . This set covers a high-interest topic, and the short paragraphs, sidebars, and large color photos will attract reluctant View →
Unique Pets – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
This high-interest set presents well-organized information about unusual subjects in both their natural environments and as household pets. Habitats, defenses, descriptions, diets, life cycles, and care are clearly described in straightforward text enlivened by interjections (“Yikes!”… View →
Cool Trash To Treasure – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
“Upcycling” gets a shot in the arm with these attractive craft books, each of which contains at least six funky projects, some requiring little more than glue and scissors to accomplish. Unlike many craft volumes, the design palette here does not automatically scream “girl,” although… View →
Emergency Workers – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
The layout is bold and clean, with crisp color photographs showing emergency workers in action scattered throughout. The glossaries have thorough definitions for terms specific to each volume’s subject and the indexes will help readers find facts quickly. The books could be used with… View →
World Free of Bullying - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
Brief chapters present bullying scenarios and tell beginning readers how to diffuse or resolve them. Situations. . .are realistic and age-appropriate for the intended audience. The same “Bully Test” is included at the end of each book to help students become aware of and avoid bullying… View →
Biggest, Baddest Books Set 1 – School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
. . .well designed to cater to new or reluctant readers. Each one features several rousing illustrations or (less often) photographs, which are paired with brief explanatory comments. View →
Cool Relaxing: Healthy and Fun Ways to Chill Out (Cool Health & Fitness) – Booklist
These days everyone is stressed out, even the littles: “Piano lessons. Homework. Hanging out with friends. Your life can get very busy! Sometimes that’s overwhelming.” The unspoken truth: whatever pleasantly distracts you does the trick. Eight activities are given… View →
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