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How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
by Lynne CherryWhen the weather changes daily, how do we really know that Earth's climate is changing? Here is the science behind the headlines - evidence from flowers, butterflies, birds, frogs, trees, glaciers and much more, gathered by scientists from all over the world, sometimes with assistance from young "citizen-scientists." And here is what young people, and their families and teachers, can do to learn about climate change and take action. Climate change is a critical and timely topic of deep concern, here told in an age-appropriate manner, with clarity and hope. Kids can make a difference!
How We Lived in Colonial New England
by Deborah KentWritten for children in grades 3-6, this book describes life in the New England colonies - the houses people lived in, what they wore, what they ate, what they believed, how they cared for the sick. It contains many quotes from letters and diaries of the time. A bibliography and index are also included.
How We Say I Love You
by Nicole ChenIn this heartwarming picture book, an Asian American girl shares how her family expresses their love for one another through actions rather than words.How do you tell your family that you love them? For Hana, love is all around her: Mom stirs love into a steaming pot of xifan. Dad cheers with love at her soccer game. Hana says good night with love by rubbing her grandma's feet and pouring her grandpa his sleepy tea. And as the light fades, Hana's parents tuck her into bed and give her a good night kiss. So many families express their love in all they do for one another, every day. Here is a book that wraps you in a hug and invites your family to share their own special ways of showing love.
How We Use Plants for Food
by Sally MorganPlants are used to make so many foods that we eat! This title engages readers with easy do-it-yourself experiments as it explains the many fascinating ways plants can be made into food; from cereal, fruits and vegetables, to sugar and oils. Different parts of the plant are used to make these foods; and freshness and preservation are equally important.
How We Use Plants for Making Everyday Things
by Sally MorganMany of the things we use each day are made from plants. Readers may not realize that the clothes they wear or the rubber tires on their bicycle are made from plants. This book covers plant-based items from fabrics to paper. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the process as they learn how to make their own paper!
How We Use Plants for Medicine and Health
by Sally MorganPeople use plants for a variety of medicinal and health purposes from making herbal remedies and pain killers, to products for skin care and healthy teeth to fighting diseases like cancer. Readers will also have the chance to make their own plant remedy.
How We Use Wood
by Chris OxladeHow We Use Wood will give you answers to these and many other questions: Why is wood a good material for building boats? How do we get paper from wood? Why we use wood to make drain pipes?
How Weird Is It? A Freaky Book All About Strangeness
by Ben HillmanIn the fourth book in this remarkable series, Ben Hillman shows young readers just how weird something is. By examining objects such as neutron stars, lightning, frogs, and liquid nitrogen,wildly different objects are taken out of normal context and placed next to one another to allow for new and exciting perspectives. So just how weird is a frog? Well, there's a frog from Surinam that gives birth through its back. Now, that's weird!
How Wet Can You Get? (Pictureback(R))
by Joe Mathieu Aristides Ruiz Tish RabeSally and Nick are playing in the rain--and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to get clean? Based on an episode of the new PBS Kids program The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, this 16-page Pictureback comes with a sheet of adorable stickers featuring all the mud encrusted characters.
How Wet Can You Get? (Pictureback(R))
by Tish RabeRead and listen along with the Cat in the Hat! Sally and Nick are playing in the rain—and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to get clean? Based on an episode of the hit PBS Kids tv show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.
How Will Santa Find Me? (Full House Dear Michelle)
by Judy KatschkeDear Mike, Parents told me we're going to Grandma's house on Christmas Eve. How will Santa find me? He knows where I live, but does he know Grandma's house? And how will he deliver my presents if we are not at home? Can you help? Been Really Good.
How Will We Get to the Beach: Como iremos a la playa (Michael Neugebauer Books)
by Brigitte Luciani Eve TharletA Spanish-English guessing game story! <P><P>Toddlers will love this uncomplicated story, while older preschoolers will be involved in guessing what must be left behind as they watch Roxanne pack up for the beach! <P><P>Roxanne is headed to the beach with a turtle, an umbrella, a book, a ball, and her baby. But the car won't start and whenever Roxanne comes up with a new way to get to the beach, she discovers she must leave something behind. Spanish-speaking children will delight in guessing just what's missing each time in this sunshine-bright romp of a book.
How Willy Got His Wheels
by Deborah Turner Diana MohlerFrom the Book Jacket: A book every parent will enjoy with their child. A true story about a courageous dog who didn't know that he wasn't perfect... Willy will bring love and understanding into your world and show you that life is what you make it. HOW WILLY GOT HIS WHEELS, the story of a little dog that could... AND DID! This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
How Winston Lost His Math Homework
by Matt Faulkner Linda Rae ApolzonWinston is in trouble. He didn’t bring his math homework to school, and his teacher isn’t happy! It wasn’t his fault, though. He’d been chewing bubblegum and blowing bubbles, and one of his bubbles goes on an adventure—and takes his homework with it!
How Wisdom Came to the World: An Ashanti Tale (Leveled Readers 4FOG)
by Benjamin KhanAnansi is a spider. He is asked to do a great favor. As you read, ask yourself questions about how the story will end, and look for the answers.
How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea
by Susan Campbell BartolettiThis is how history should be told to kids—with photos, illustrations, and captivating storytelling.From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti and in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in America comes the page-turning, stunningly illustrated, and tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women’s March of 1913.Bartoletti spins a story like few others—deftly taking readers by the hand and introducing them to suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Paul and Burns met in a London jail and fought their way through hunger strikes, jail time, and much more to win a long, difficult victory for America and its women.Includes extensive back matter and dozens of archival images to evoke the time period between 1909 and 1920.
How Would You Survive in the American West?
by Jacqueline MorleyThis book takes you on a journey across two-thirds of the vast continent of North America, a distance of over 2,000 miles (3,220 km). Today you could make the trip in four days by road, or in four hours by jet, but you must imagine that you are traveling in the mid-nineteenth century, fifty years before the car appeared. You will be going in an ox-drawn wagon - a five-month trip, at least. If anything happens to your oxen you may have to walk.
How Writers Work
by Ralph FletcherThe Secret of WritingIts misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magic knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and scratch that itch every chance they have. Writers get their ideas down on paper using particular strategies that seem to work for them. These strategies are available to anyone who wants to be a writer... Revealed!There is no secret. But there is a process. If you like to write, there are definite steps you can take to help you reach your goals. Good writing isn't forged by magic or hatched out of thin air. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control o their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.This book will show you how writers work, how you can become a writer, and how you can find a process that works for you
How Writing Began: From Apple to Alphabet
by John GranditsA long time, humans did not have writing. At some point, people began using symbols and then pictures.
How Ya Like Me Now
by Brendan HalpinAfter his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin's Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive school, and learns how to feel like a normal teenager.
How Ya Like Me Now
by Brendan HalpinSince his dad died, Eddie's mom has spent all her time getting high on OxyContin, leaving Eddie to take care of himself. When Eddie's mom goes into rehab and his aunt and uncle take him away to Boston, everything changes. His new school, which he attends with his cousin Alex, is experimental: there's a CEO instead of a principal, classes are held in an office building, and the students, all sporting business-casual looks, are the only urban kids Eddie has ever seen outside of a rap video. As for Alex, it's bad enough that he has to share his bedroom with Eddie, but his parents are on his case about including his quiet cousin in his social life as well. Alex wants to do the right thing, but between talking to girls, playing video games, thinking about girls, laughing with his friends, and looking at girls, when is he supposed to find time to help Eddie and "work up to his potential" in school? Two boys find that they have a lot to learn from each other in this touching, funny novel about finding your place and looking out for your friends.
How You Came to Be
by Carole GerberThis love letter written from mother to child invites readers to experience a baby's month-by-month development in the womb as compared to familiar fruits and vegetables.A mother lovingly describes the sizes and stages of her baby's month-by-month development inside the womb, and the amazement of experiencing it from the outside. Look at you - as big as a banana! Some of your cells formed into bones,and your arms and legs grew longer.I could feel you kick!Sometimes when I rubbed my belly,I felt you thump back. Was that your way of saying hello?Simple, age-appropriate facts are woven into a tender and lyrical text that celebrates the miracle of a baby. It demystifies and informs readers, while simultaneously appreciating the wonder of it all. A perfect read-aloud for mother and child, or for children whose mothers are pregnant with a younger sibling.
How You Can Save Water (Learn About)
by Dionna L. MannAn essential tool to teach kids about the importance of water!Did you know that when water appears in your home, it must disappear from somewhere else? And that freshwater supply has to be shared by 7.7 billion people on Earth? If people do not conserve freshwater, there will not be enough for everyone. The good news is that there are lots of ways you can help save water. Learn all about them in How You Can Save Water.ABOUT THIS SERIES: Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of the abundant amount of water that covers our home. And nothing on Earth could survive without it. As we find ourselves facing a global water crisis, learning about this life-giving resource has never been more important. The books in this series are filled with colorful photos and diagrams, plus easy-to-digest text, and fascinating facts. And they offer young readers an in-depth look at what water is, how we use it, and most importantly, what we can do to protect it.
How You Can Save the Planet
by Hendrikus van Hensbergen*Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of The Lost Words.*If you're worried about climate change, this book is an essential and reassuring read.We often feel like we don't have the power to make real change.But our small changes can add up to something BIG. Packed with reassuring step by step actions and easy to follow DIY activities, How You Can Save The Planet is the perfect gift for young activists who want to make a difference.With simple explanations, practical tips and stories from children across the world, this guide is ideal for young people who are worried about climate change and want to help our planet!Crafted by Hendrikus van Hensbergen, whose work is featured on BBC Bitesize[JP2] , this inspiring read is perfect for children at KS2. 'Every young person in the country should be given this book' Sir Tim Smit, Founder of The Eden Project'It's enlightening, inspiring and empowering' Kate Humble, TV presenter'Wonderfully informative, fun and practical [. . .] A great source of inspiration' The Rich Brothers, TV presenters
How You Got So Smart
by David MilgrimEvery stage in growing up has its own fun and challenges, and the adorable star of this book faces each one with gusto. As a baby, there's the taste-everything phase--whether it is meant to be eaten or not! And as a toddler, there's the question-everything phase. But all the while baby is growing up and becoming a curious kid whose exploration of the world leads to amazing places and discoveries. He's come so far and learned so much, and now everyone is so proud of him! This celebration of curiosity and creativity, with its funny, joyful illustrations full of kid-friendly details, is a great gift for any major milestone.