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Hummingbirds

Melissa Gish (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566600484

A look at hummingbirds, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their ability to hover, behaviors, relationships with humans, and admired status in the world today.

The Story of the Utah Jazz

Nate LeBoutillier (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604826

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team’s history from its 1974 founding in New Orleans, Louisiana, to today, spotlighting memorable players and events.

The Story of the Portland Trail Blazers

Nate LeBoutillier (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604789

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Portland Trail Blazers professional basketball team’s history from its 1970 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Minnesota Timberwolves

Nate LeBoutillier (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604710

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Minnesota Timberwolves professional basketball team’s history from its 1989 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Miami Heat

Shane Frederick (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604697

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Miami Heat professional basketball team’s history from its 1988 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Stolen Smile

J. Patrick Lewis (author), Gary Kelley (illustrator)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566605656

In a new edition of their second collaboration, author J. Patrick Lewis and illustrator Gary Kelley take readers back to 1911 -- to the city Paris, where history's most famous portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has gone missing from the Louvre Museum. As France laments the loss of its most treasured masterpiece, a zealous Italian watches with amusement, for he alone knows the truth behind the mystery of the vanished lady with the peculiar smile. Lewis's words, narrated by the proud thief himself, tell the spirited tale, while Kelley's illustrations masterfully depict each turn of the unfolding drama. Based on true events, The Stolen Smile is the story of a hopeful hero and one painting's powerful spell.

The Story of the Sacramento Kings

Jim Whiting (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604796

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team’s history from its 1945 founding as the Rochester Royals to today, spotlighting memorable players and events.

The Story of the Phoenix Suns

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604772

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Phoenix Suns professional basketball team’s history from its 1968 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Orlando Magic

Jim Whiting (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604758

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Orlando Magic professional basketball team’s history from its 1989 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Memphis Grizzlies

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604680

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Memphis Grizzlies professional basketball team’s history from its 1995 founding in Vancouver, British Columbia, to today, spotlighting memorable players and events.

The Story of the Indiana Pacers

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604659

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Indiana Pacers professional basketball team’s history from its 1967 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Houston Rockets

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604642

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Houston Rockets professional basketball team’s history from its 1967 founding in San Diego, California, to today, spotlighting memorable players and events.

The Story of the Cleveland Cavaliers

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604598

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Cleveland Cavaliers professional basketball team’s history from its 1970 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of the Charlotte Hornets

Jim Whiting (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604574

Basketball is known for its fast-breaking, buzzer-beating action, and Creative Education is known for its stellar sports publishing. That excitement is captured—and that tradition continued—in The NBA: A History of Hoops, a series celebrating all 30 franchises of the National Basketball Association. With thrilling texts, interesting side panels, and lively player profiles set alongside vibrant photos, every team’s origins, stars, greatest triumphs, and most unforgettable moments can be experienced like never before. This title provides an informative narration of the Charlotte Bobcats professional basketball team’s history from its 2004 founding to today, spotlighting memorable players and reliving dramatic events.

The Story of MTV

Sara Gilbert (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604239

MTV. Pixar. Target. Twitter. They are names recognized around the world today, but just how did these companies grow into global giants? Creative Education’s popular Built for Success series now spotlights four more flourishing corporations and introduces the leaders who guided them to prominence. Each title surveys the featured company’s complete history, examining its triumphs and failures, products and innovations, and the impact it has had on the lives of people around the globe. An outstanding resource for STEM units on contemporary technology and industry. In this title, take a look at the origins, leaders, growth, and innovations of MTV, the music video channel founded in 1981, which is one of cable television’s leading entertainment channels today.

Rome

Valerie Bodden (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604222

From the lowliest slave to the most powerful ruler, every civilization has been built—and undone—by different classes of people. This new series takes an anthropologist’s view of five famous Ancient Civilizations, noting how the various social groups influenced and interacted with each other and changed the very history of the world. Emphasizing each civilization’s legacy and innovations, each title also presents a timeline of major historical events and engaging facts are highlighted throughout the text. In this title discover an historical overview of the Roman civilization from the perspectives of the social classes, from the senators to the plebeians, including the Italian empire’s growth and decline.

Greece

Valerie Bodden (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604215

From the lowliest slave to the most powerful ruler, every civilization has been built—and undone—by different classes of people. This new series takes an anthropologist’s view of five famous Ancient Civilizations, noting how the various social groups influenced and interacted with each other and changed the very history of the world. Emphasizing each civilization’s legacy and innovations, each title also presents a timeline of major historical events and engaging facts are highlighted throughout the text. In this title discover an historical overview of the Greek civilization from the perspectives of the social classes, from the aristocrats to the slaves, including the Mediterranean city-states’ growth and decline.

Egypt

Valerie Bodden (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604208

From the lowliest slave to the most powerful ruler, every civilization has been built—and undone—by different classes of people. This new series takes an anthropologist’s view of five famous Ancient Civilizations, noting how the various social groups influenced and interacted with each other and changed the very history of the world. Emphasizing each civilization’s legacy and innovations, each title also presents a timeline of major historical events and engaging facts are highlighted throughout the text. In this title discover an historical overview of the Egyptian civilization from the perspectives of the social classes, from the king to the laborers, including the North African kingdoms’ growth and decline.

China

Valerie Bodden (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604192

From the lowliest slave to the most powerful ruler, every civilization has been built—and undone—by different classes of people. This new series takes an anthropologist’s view of five famous Ancient Civilizations, noting how the various social groups influenced and interacted with each other and changed the very history of the world. Emphasizing each civilization’s legacy and innovations, each title also presents a timeline of major historical events and engaging facts are highlighted throughout the text. In this title discover an historical overview of dynastic China from the perspectives of the social classes, from the royals to the peasants, including the Chinese empire’s growth and decline.

The Story of the Oakland Raiders

Nate Frisch (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566603553

The history of the National Football League’s Oakland Raiders, surveying the franchise’s biggest stars and most memorable moments from its inaugural season in 1960 to today.

Mocha Dick

Brian Heinz (author), Randall Enos (illustrator)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604994

Believed to have been active from 1810 to 1859, Mocha Dick was infamous for the ferocity of his retaliations against those who attempted to capture him. From the first recorded encounter near the South American island of Mocha till the fatal harpoon blow, the sperm whale was a legend in his own time. In language befitting a sea lore, author Brian Heinz describes characteristic episodes of the great whale’s life, as illustrator Randall Enos animates the tale in a textured style evocative of scrimshaw. Narrative nonfiction with back matter resources.

William Shakespeare

Jennifer Fandel (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604949

Combining biographical profiles with poetry selections, this revised and updated selection of Voices in Poetry highlights the extraordinary lives and talent of some of the world’s most influential poets. From Shakespeare’s classic love sonnets to Hughes’s songs of the African American experience, this series introduces readers to six unique poetic voices from multiple perspectives by featuring full-length poems or excerpts from larger works and examinations of the author’s style and thematic material. This title provides an exploration of the life and work of 16th-century English writer William Shakespeare, whose poetry is known best for its sonnet form as well as its transcendent descriptions of love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Patricia Kirkpatrick (author). Gary Kelley (illustrator)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604925

Combining biographical profiles with poetry selections, this revised and updated selection of Voices in Poetry highlights the extraordinary lives and talent of some of the world’s most influential poets. From Shakespeare’s classic love sonnets to Hughes’s songs of the African American experience, this series introduces readers to six unique poetic voices from multiple perspectives by featuring full-length poems or excerpts from larger works and examinations of the author’s style and thematic material. This title provides an exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry is known for its lonely and macabre themes, songlike rhythms, and sense of longing.

E.E. Cummings

S. L. Berry (author), Stasys Eidrigevicius (illustrator)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604918

Combining biographical profiles with poetry selections, this revised and updated selection of Voices in Poetry highlights the extraordinary lives and talent of some of the world’s most influential poets. From Shakespeare’s classic love sonnets to Hughes’s songs of the African American experience, this series introduces readers to six unique poetic voices from multiple perspectives by featuring full-length poems or excerpts from larger works and examinations of the author’s style and thematic material. This title provides an exploration of the life and work of 20th-century American writer E. E. Cummings, whose poetry is known for its combination of innovative, artistic style and traditional rhyme and meter.

Navy SEALs

Jim Whiting (author)

Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781566604895

Even the most rigorous training would not prepare young readers for the sheer amount of intel they will uncover about six of the most secretive U.S. Special Forces. Each title covers the chronology of the special ops force and supplements the main narrative with “Force Fact” sidebars about such topics as weaponry, facilities, and popular culture references. From historical missions and controversial calls to details about equipment and selection processes, this series aims to inform! This title provides a chronological account of the American special forces unit known as the Navy SEALs, including key details about important figures, landmark missions, and controversies.