A service dog is any dog that performs a job or a task that helps a person who has a physical or mental disability. These tasks can be anything from guiding people down a sidewalk to sniffing out changes in blood sugar levels. Find out how these personal support dogs are trained and how they bond deeply with their owners.
Military working dogs serve as detection, scout, and patrol dogs on military bases, airfields, and prisons. Find out how these dogs are able to detect threats that human eyes and noses cannot find.
Search and Rescue, also known as SAR, dogs are brought in after natural or human-made disasters happen, or when a person goes missing. Find out how they are trained to find people who are trapped or in need of help using their keen sense of smell.
A detection dog is trained to smell certain scents and lead their handler to them. They can sniff out everything from bombs to cancer and many things in between. Find out how these dogs are out there every day making the world a safer place.
Kittens are cuddly and can make great friends for kids. Find out what food they eat, what you need to take care of them, and what toys are safe for kittens to play with.
There are many kinds of hamsters but only five kinds kept as pets. Find out about the different kinds of hamsters, what kinds of food they eat, how to give them exercise, and how to keep their cage comfortable and clean.
Puppies love to play and can make great friends for kids. Find out how mother dogs take care of their puppies and what food puppies eat as they grow.
It is important to choose the right bird to be your pet. Find out how different kinds of pet birds act and how much attention each one needs. You will also learn what kinds of food they eat, how to give them exercise, and how to keep their cage clean.
This book introduces early readers to noses. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading!
This book introduces early readers to ears. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading!
This book introduces early readers to legs and feet. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading!
This book introduces early readers to mouths. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading!
This book introduces early readers to arms and hands. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading!
Why do some things float while others sink? Readers learn about buoyancy and density, guess what type of objects will float or sink, and conduct a floating experiment of their own! Great for STEM and content literacy.
Squares, rectangles, triangles, circles--these shapes help us build things. Look around! Shapes are everywhere! Great for STEM and content literacy.
The perfect, low-level book for introducing magnets and how they work. Kids will be able to identify many magnetic objects after reading this book, as well as what materials are NOT magnetic.
Young readers learn plenty about sound energy including how sound travels, how animals and people focus on sounds, and and how we use sound to gather information all around us.
Do they buzz, fly, bite, or sting? Discover some incredible facts about insects in this colorful book.
Young readers will learn what electricity is, where it comes from, and how it is produced and used in our homes and businesses. Words like energy, circuit, and conductor, are clearly explained.
Learn about light in this easy-to-read book. Simple text, colorful photos, and diagrams explain how light comes from a source, how it moves, and what is happening when you see reflection or refraction. Light waves and frequency also featured. Fun facts about light scattered throughout. Word matching game, comprehension questions, glossary, and index included. Contains the science concepts and vocabulary students need to know in grades 3 to 5. Correlates to NSTA's Science Standards.
This fact-filled book describes all things plants! With terms like species, photosynthesis, life cycle, and habitat, young readers will gain an understanding of how plants have survived on Earth for millions of years, and how we can't survive without them.
From hot magma deep inside Earth to rock and soil on the surface, this book describes the layers that makeup Earth and the life-supporting atmosphere that surrounds it.
It moves, it freezes, it melts. Kids find out that water takes on different forms and that it plays an important role in supporting life on Earth. Includes the water cycle.
A great introduction to weather terms and their meanings. Kids learn how weather changes day to day, and how it affects what we wear and what we do outside.
Young readers will understand the differences between living and non-living things with this bright and colorful book, which describes objects, as well as animals and plants and their life cycles.
