Melissa Stewart
1) Dolphins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the different types of dolphins, where they live, what they eat, etc.
2) Meteors
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it's made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn't survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen-sucking midge, an aphid-munching anole lizard, brain-eating coffin fly maggots-they...
4) Robots
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Introduces robots and the science behind these amazing machines, including a historic timeline of robot development, common jobs robots perform in the workplace and at home, and robots of the future.
5) Titanic
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Series
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English
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Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Your mouth contains more bacteria than a dog's. Money is covered with germs that can make you sick. The germs in a sneeze travel only an arm's length. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen statements about the microscopic world and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find out whether...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Everyone knows about animals that hibernate in the winter. But it's time to discover animals that sleep all summer long!
All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate-a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant-whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body...
12) Zoom in on Bees
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Have your readers ever seen a bee up close? What does it look like? How does it eat? What is its life cycle? When readers check out the 'Zoom Bubbles' on every spread of this book, readers will get an up close peek at this insect's body, eyes, antennae, wings, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
They're SSSSLITHERY! SLIPPERY! They creep us out! But get to know them and you'll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on certain tails, these creatures have secrets all kids will love. Cool photos and fun facts slip us inside their surprising world.
15) Cell Biology
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English
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What are cells made of? Biologists have been studying cells since the mid-1600s, when Robert Hooke viewed a slice of cork through a microscope and coined the word "cell" to describe the walled-in spaces he saw. Most cells are invisible to the naked eye. Yet they carry out the many complex processes that make life possible. As microscopes have improved, scientists have learned more and more about cells and their organelles-the structures within cells....
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Español
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¡AHORA EN ESPAÑOL! Las hormigas se encuentran en todas partes. Y ya que los niños están siempre cerca de la tierra, muchas veces son ellas el primer animal que observan y estudian - ¡a veces con la intensidad de científicos profesionales! Con este libro, los niños las conocerán de cerca.
Las hormigas pueden ser de diferentes tamaños y colores, y tienen distintas maneras de prosperar en los lugares donde viven. Y sí que prosperan, y a veces...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Have your readers ever seen a dragonfly up-close? Readers will be treated to bright, colorful close-up images that demystify this fast flying insect. Readers will learn about antennae, wings, life cycles, and habitats.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Author Melissa Stewart shines a light on the night-time show-stoppers known as fireflies. Readers discover a firefly's life cycle, eating habits, wings, and other details. The insect's body parts are displayed in fine detail through the Zoom bubbles.
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English
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Superhero and comic book force? Sure, but also a real-life animal! Find out in this Level 3 Reader how fierce wolverines, who are expert survivors, can be even more fantastic than those in movies and graphic novels.
Journey through harsh cold and rugged mountain ranges to see how wolverines take down prey, raise their young, and live in one of the world's harshest environments. Learn about how their bodies adapt for survival, and about the animal's...