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Word Families
The Word Families series offers kids silly stories that emphasize words with “the same spelling and sound patterns,” and the repetition of the books’ featured phoneme/grapheme within a variety of words will help beginning readers start to recognize the letter pairs.… View →
Land Preservation - Booklist
This entry in the Protecting Our Planet series (6 titles) offers a comprehensive exploration of land use by humans. Because human activities, such as agriculture and construction, have disrupted natural environments, degraded soil, increased carbon dioxide, and caused other harmful… View →
Barbie Today - Booklist
Barbie has been an icon since the late 1950s, and this iteration of the Barbie through the Decades series (6 titles) shares her resurgence in modern popular culture. With the assistance of digital content accessible via QR codes throughout, this touches back to the genesis of Barbie by… View →
Spy Surveillance - Booklist
Opening with the story of a real intelligence leak at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the Cold War, this volume in the Spy Guide series (6 titles) is packed with fascinating information about secret intelligence gathering. Following an overview of spying basics, including types of spy… View →
Discovering the United States - School Library Journal
Illustrated with color photos, this _series includes basic facts about the 50 states, the U.S. capital, and Puerto Rico. Simple sentences and a predictable format guide readers through colorful tidbits and statistical and geographic information about each location. Each volume opens… View →
GOATs in Sports -School Library Journal
This series includes short collective biographies of past and current sports _players who could be named the GOAT (Greatest of All Time). In these biographies, each famous athlete has one page dedicated to their illustrious career. From the first players and the View →
Xtreme Horror Lab - School Library Journal
This series takes a rational, scientific approach to cryptids, monsters, and the paranormal. Commendably, it doesnХt debunk these phenomena, nor does it talk down to or ridicule believers. Short sentences promote fast-paced reading, ramp up suspense, and welcome striving readers. New… View →
IХm Thinking of an Animal - School Library Journal
Every great detective has to start somewhere! This emerging reader series uses cumulative clues and repetition of key words to help curious kids guess which _animal the author is thinking of. Every time a new clue is introduced, it is added to the ТcluesУ tracker on the bottom of the… View →
Spy Guide - School Library Journal
This series offers a detailed peek into the world of espionage. Readers learn how cyber security is needed to prevent government sites from being hacked, how spies communicate with their handlers, and of how different surveillance methods such as drones and bugs are employed. Some… View →
Essential Fitness - School Library Journal
How do you start a fitness routine? What do you need and what is safe? These questions and more are addressed for teens looking to develop healthy habits around exercise. Hot topics are explored like fitness-based applications and specific exercises hyped on social media. Clutter and… View →
Cheerleading - School Library Journal
Cheerleaders will be thrilled to find their sport represented on library shelves, and this series wonХt disappoint. Each book focuses on a different aspect of cheerleading, from tryouts and professional careers to crafting cheers. While the books offer a general overview, their real… View →
High-Stakes Heists -School Library Journal
A simple whoХs-who of heists. Spare language and flashy images are the focus of this hi-lo series. With two titles released and more forthcoming, ТHigh-Stakes HeistsУ summarizes world-famous thefts with a short paragraph for each heist on every page of the book. These snippets may… View →
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