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Ultimate Reptile Rumble (Who Would Win?)
by Jerry PallottaTwelve different reptiles battle it out in a huge fight! Who will be the champion?This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts 16 ferocious reptiles. Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling animals before finally discovering the winner!This nonfiction series is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures, insects, and dinosaurs to satisfy all kinds of animal fans.
Ultimate Scoring Machine (NFL Monday Night Football Club Ser. #5)
by Gordon KormanWhen Nick, Coleman, and Elliot end up with a counselor who hates football, chaos errupts at Camp Flagler Bay, until Nick trades places with legendary receiver Jerry Rice. Original.
Ultimate Shark Rumble (Who Would Win? #24)
by Jerry PallottaSixteen different sharks battle it out in a huge underwater fight! Who will be the champion?This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts 16 ferocious sharks. Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling animals before finally discovering the winner! This nonfiction series is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures, insects, and dinosaurs to satisfy all kinds of animal fans.
Ultimate Showdown (Who Would Win?)
by Jerry Pallotta Robert BolsterWhat if one dangerous animal had a fight with another? Who do you think would win? In this five-book bind-up of the popular Who Would Win? series, kids will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling pairs before finally discovering the winner! This nonfiction collection is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures, insects, and dinosaurs to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, including Lion vs. Tiger, Hammerhead vs. Bull Shark, Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear, Hornet vs. Wasp, and Triceratops vs. Spinosaurus. <p><p> So who do YOU think would win?
Ultimate Spider-Man: Spider-Man vs Dracula
by Chris WyattWhen Dracula—King of the Vampires—returns to control the living and the undead, it's up to Spider-Man, along with some help from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s supernatural Super Heroes, the Howling Commandos, to stop this monster and return him to his tomb...before it's tomb late!
Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Discover the Island's Best Loot (Ultimate Survival Tactics for Fortnite B)
by Jason R. RichBe first to find the best loot and battle your way to victory! Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Discover the Island’s Best Loot offers a comprehensive overview of the game, and includes strategies for survival, building, exploration, and engaging in combat that every gamer must master to ultimately achieve success. Inside, you’ll discover what’s available and how to find and acquire the many different types of weapons, ammo, loot items, and resources, and learn proven strategies for using each item in a variety of situations that’ll aid in your survival and battle victories. Whether you’re using a PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, or Android-based mobile device, this unofficial, full-color strategy guide will introduce you to the many different items that can be found, collected, and utilized during your stay on the island. Learn to assess situations and collect the best arsenal to meet your challengesFind your key to survival by knowing when and how to use your arsenalMaster strategies for survival, building, and explorationLearn the best way to engage in combat, which every gamer must master to achieve success
Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Mastering Game Settings for Victory (Ultimate Survival Tactics for Fortnite B)
by Jason R. RichThe Essential Guide to Maximizing Your Settings in Fortnite Battle Royale! Unlock a plethora of gaming tips and strategies to achieve victory! Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Mastering Game Settings for Victory explains to readers what each customizable setting within the game is used for and helps gamers fine-tune these settings to meet their unique needs. This full-color, unofficial guide will focus on customizing the game’s options and settings when playing on a PC or Mac, console-based gaming system, and/or on a mobile device. Using easy-to-understand explanations, along with hundreds of full-color screenshots, Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactices for Fortnite Battle Royale: Mastering Game Settings for Victory will quickly become an indispensable resource for gamers looking to enhance and fully personalize their gaming experience. Learn the best uses for the 100+ user-customizable options in the gameFine-tune the game’s settings to enhance your gaming style, experience, and strengths as a playerImprove your performance by mastering the settings that fit your game-play
Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Sharpshooter Secrets For Mastering Your Arsenal (Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for)
by Jason R. RichThe Ultimate Guide to Fortnite Weapon Use Strategy Power up your arsenal with Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Sharpshooter Secrets for Mastering Your Arsenal! This full-color, comprehensive guide unlocks the weapons and items offered within the game and shows you how to best use them. Inside, you’ll find in-depth strategies and techniques for achieving accurate aim, how to accomplish headshots, and how to make the best use of explosive and projectile weapons. Whether you’re on a PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, or Android-based gaming system, you’ll learn how to utilize more than one hundred different types of weapons in order to achieve #1 Victory Royale. Learn the secrets to each weapon’s ammo type, capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses in order to use it effectively in a firefight. Additionally, you will develop a thorough understanding of the weapons, ammo types, and items available, and you will learn proven strategies for putting together the perfect personal arsenal for each phase of a match—including the End Game. • Master close-range, mid-range, and long-range combat techniques • Learn how to use weapons and items to build your skills and win battles and firefights • Know how, when, and where to find weapons and ammo • Find out how utilize loot items that serve as weapons, including Grenades, Clingers, Remote Explosive, Stink Bombs, etc. • Learn how to strategize your survival by utilizing health and shield powerups
Ultraball #1: Lunar Blitz
by Jeff ChenEnter the exhilarating game of Ultraball—fly over pass rushers and explode into slingshot zones—through Jeff Chen’s dazzling future world on the moon. Here Ultraball is life, and survival is all that matters. Perfect for sci-fi and sports fans alike. Strike Sazaki loves defying gravity on the moon in his Ultrabot suit. He’s the best quarterback in the league, but while Strike’s led the Taiko Miners to the Ultrabowl three years in a row, each one has ended in defeat. This year, Strike thinks he’s finally found the missing piece to his championship quest: a mysterious girl who could be his new star rocketback. But Boom comes from the Dark Siders, a mass of people who left the United Moon Colonies to live in exile. And not all his teammates are happy sharing a field with her.When rumors surface of a traitor on the Miners, Strike isn’t sure who he can trust. If Strike can’t get his teammates to cooperate and play together, they’ll lose more than just the Ultrabowl. The stake of the colony’s future is on his shoulders.
Ultraball #2: Deathstrike
by Jeff ChenThe stakes are extreme in the second book of Jeff Chen’s futuristic, action-packed Ultraball series. Win-or-lose turns into life-or-death in this thrilling middle grade adventure tailor-made for sports and sci-fi fans.Strike and the Miners are hungrier than ever for a championship after losing yet another Ultrabowl. When they suffer a shocking defeat in their season opener, Strike knows that something is off with his game, but the secret hampering his play is too large to reveal.If he can’t perform at the highest level, what chances do the Miners have against the unstoppable Neutrons?Worse yet, his powerful enemy, Raiden Zuna, knows Strike is hiding something. Zuna offers to help, and Strike is tempted—but the information Zuna wants in return threatens Strike’s friend Boom, as well as the growing Dark Side resistance. When rumors surface about Zuna’s mysterious grand plan, code-named Operation Deathstrike, Strike’s choice could have consequences he never anticipated.Even as the Ultraball games ratchet up in intensity, with teams using explosive new tactics to reach the Ultrabowl, Strike has bigger decisions to make if he wants to keep his teammates—and the moon—safe.
Ultrabot's First Playdate
by Josh SchneiderBoy + Bot meets School's First Day of School in this hilarious and reassuring take on first experiences and making new friends, from a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner.Ultrabot is a big robot with a big problem. Its professor is planning a playdate with Becky Tingle, the little girl from next door. But Ultrabot has never been on a playdate, and it doesn&’t know Becky. What if she&’s mean? What if she breaks all of Ultrabot&’s toys? What if she won&’t share? Packed with loads of fun details and visual humor, this reassuring friendship story speaks to the shy giant robot in all of us.
Uma Wimple Charts Her House
by Reif Larsen Ben GibsonHip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home!Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls.Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.
Umma Ungka's Unusual Umbrella (Animal Antics A to Z)
by Barbara deRubertisUmma Ungka stumbles and bumbles. She trips and tumbles! The summer sun is making her feel dizzy and muddled! But Uncle Ungka might have just the solution to keep Umma cool as a cucumber all summer long.
Un Beso en Mi Mano (The Kissing Hand Series)
by Audrey Penn Ruth E. Harper Nancy M. LeakThis title is the Spanish version of bestseller The Kissing Hand.
Un Día, Fin (One Day, The End): Cuentos cortos, cortísimos, más cortos que nunca
by Rebecca Kai DotlichA Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor BookVery short, creative stories pair with bold illustrations in this picture book that will inspire young readers to stretch their imaginations and write stories of their own."One day . . . I went to school. I came home. The end," says our storyteller—a girl with a busy imagination and a thirst for adventure. The art tells a fuller tale of calamity on the way to school and an unpredictably happy ending. Each illustration in this inventive picture book captures multiple, unexpected, and funny storylines as the narrator shares her shorter-than-ever stories, ending with "One day . . . I wanted to write a book." This book features a unique approach to writing and telling stories and is a delightful gift for children as well as for teachers seeking a mentor text for their classrooms.
Un bosque en casa (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level P #73)
by Diana Noonan Gee HaleMatt y su mamá se mudaron del campo a un pequeño apartamento en la ciudad. Matt se siente triste en la ciudad, hasta que descubre algo increíble en el apartamento de su vecina. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Un cadeau pour Sophie
by Gilles Vigneault Stephane JorsichSophie est une petite fille de 7 ans avec deux tresses rousses. Elle aime dessiner, elle dessine tout le monde et ce qu'elle voit. Elle aime aussi faire poser son vieil Oncle Thomas qu'on appelle « le bonhomme Tom ». Chaque jour, il lui offre un cadeau. Sophie a un copain, Emilio, qui lui offre aussi un cadeau, un magnifique tesson de bouteille. Mais voilà qu'il disparaît. Sophie et Emilio enquêtent... Ces deux enfants n'oublieront jamais le bonhomme Tom, celui qui a su leur faire entrevoir le monde à travers le prisme des trésors du coeur. Une magnifique fable qui explore les thèmes de l'amitié, de la solidarité et de la différence.
Un deseo para una estrella (Wish Upon a Stray): Una novela de la serie Deseo
by Yamile Saied MéndezA heartwarming and authentic immigration story about a stray dog, the power of music, and celebrating old traditions along with new beginnings, by Pura Belpré Award-winning author Yamile Saied Méndez.La vida de María Emilia se vuelve patas arriba cuando ella y su familia migran desde Argentina a Estados Unidos. ¿Cómo puede hacer amigos si tan solo hablar inglés el día entero es agotador?Por suerte tiene la compañía de una perrita callejera que luce y se comporta exactamente como una gata que tenía en su país natal. Más tarde resulta que no es una perrita callejera, sino que pertenece a Donovan, el nuevo vecino de María Emilia. Para poder pasar más tiempo con la perrita (que de ninguna manera es su gata reencarnada... ¿cierto?), accede a cantar en la banda de Donovan, pero ¿podrá Emilia encontrar su nueva voz sin dejar de ser lo que fue?María Emilia's life turns upside-down when she and her family immigrate from Argentina to the US. How can she make new friends when simply speaking English all day is exhausting?Luckily, she has the company of a stray dog in the neighborhood, who happens to look and act just like her beloved pet cat back home. Eventually, it turns out the pup isn't a stray after all -- she belongs to María Emilia's new neighbor, Donovan. In order to spend more time with the dog (who totally isn't her reincarnated cat... right?), she agrees to sing in Donovan's band. But can Emilia find her new voice without losing herself?
Un extraterrestre se robó mi película (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level O #53)
by Connah Brecon Quentin FlynnLos efectos especiales para la película de ciencia ficción de esta clase son tan geniales que parecen reales. ¡Y esos extraterrestres parecen recién llegados del espacio! Esta será una película que ni los actores ni los técnicos podrán olvidar. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Un laboratorio en casa: Grandes experimentos para futuros científicos (DK Activity Lab)
by Jack ChallonerGrandes experimentos para futuros científicosEste libro de experimentos científicos para niños contiene 28 proyectos brillantes, con explicaciones claras paso a paso, que requieren ingredientes cotidianos que pueden encontrarse en casa y fotografías que guiarán al joven científico desde principio a fin.Textos informativos explican el por qué y cómo de cada experimento, utilizando ejemplos de la vida real para que los niños entiendan la aplicación de los principios científicos.Construye un modelo de Sistema Solar con gomas elásticas, consigue que un barco navegue propulsado por jabón, fabrica tu propio slime o inventa la réplica de un volcán en erupción con Un laboratorio en casa, un libro lleno de grandes experimentos de ciencia para futuros científicos.Crea tu pequeño laboratorio en casa y diviértete experimentandoEste libro de experimentos para niños explora distintas formas de crear y experimentar para que los niños se diviertan aprendiendo tanto en casa como en espacios exteriores. Todos los experimentos recogidos en este libro para niños están diseñados de forma que los puedan realizar con objetos caseros.Este libro de ciencia para niños y futuros científicos ofrece 28 ideas brillantes, para que puedan experimentar tanto en casa como al aire libre con material casero. Además, cada experimento está anotado con su nivel de dificultad y el tiempo de duración medio.... ¡entretenimiento en casa asegurado! Este libro es perfecto para que niños de 8 a 12 años se inspiren para proyectos escolares y aprendan divirtiéndose en su tiempo libre.Un laboratorio en casa, pertenece a la sección infantil de la editorial DK, una sección donde podrás encontrar libros para niños de todas las edades. Los libros de esta sección cuentan con información clara, sencilla y están acompañados de ilustraciones que facilitan la compresión de cada texto. Además, favorecen el aprendizaje y desarrollo de los lectores más jóvenes.
Un mundo nuevo: (When This World Was New)
by Danilo FigueredoIn Spanish. Un mundo nuevo brings us a gentle and uplifting story of coming to America.It was Danilito's first day in America. He and his parents have just made a long, exhausting move from the Caribbean to New York City. The ocean and the palm trees he is familiar with are now replaced by tall buildings and crowded streets. Danilito is scared. He has heard that some Americans are not friendly to foreigners. In addition, he does not speak any English. His parents have worries, too. They will have to find new jobs, a new home, and adjust to the new surroundings. This was going to be their first cold winter. Danilito's worries disappear the next morning when he wakes up and Papa leads him on a magical trip of discovery. Translated from When This World Was New, Un mondo nuevo brings us a gentle and uplifting story of coming to America.
Un niño llamado Bat: A Boy Called Bat (Spanish Edition)
by Elana K. ArnoldThe beloved bestselling first book in Elana K. Arnold’s A Boy Called Bat series arrives in a Spanish language edition!Para Bixby Alexander Tam (también cono-cido como Bat), la vida suele estar llena de sorpresas, algunas buenas y otras no tanto. Pero la sorpresa que ha recibido hoy es muy buena. La mamá de Bat, que es veterinaria, ha traído a casa una cría de mofeta que debe cuidar hasta poder entregarla a un refugio de animales salvajes.En cuanto Bat conoce a la pequeña mofeta se da cuenta de que él y el animalito están destinados el uno para el otro, y solo tiene un mes para demostrarle a su mamá que una mofeta puede ser una excelente mascota.De la reconocida autora Elana K. Arnold nos llega una historia de amistad protagonizada por un inolvidable niño con características del espectro autista.
Un plato de esperanza (A Plate of Hope Spanish Edition): La inspiradora historia del chef José Andrés y World Central Kitchen
by Erin FrankelUn conmovedor libro biográfico sobre el chef José Andrés, quien, junto con su organización World Central Kitchen, seguramente inspirará a los niños a ayudar en sus propias comunidades.El amor de José Andrés por la cocina comenzó cuando era un niño en España, mientras recogía la leña para hacer el fuego que cocinaría la paella perfecta. A José le encantaba cada aspecto: el chisporroteo del aceite de oliva, los montones de vegetales frescos picados, y el olor del azafrán. Cuando se fue de casa, se dio cuenta de que quería contar historias con comida. Y lograría contarlas, creando magia con las semillas de tomates y granadas, con almendras y queso. Sus sueños crecieron hasta que eran tan grandes como las estrellas en el cielo. Pensó: nadie debería pasar hambre. Quiero ayudar a alimentar al mundo. Y así nació World Central Kitchen.Desde el terremoto en Haití hasta la guerra en Ucrania y la pandemia de Covid, José y su equipo en World Central Kitchen han estado en primera línea, sirviendo más de 200 millones de comidas y brindando consuelo y esperanza en los momentos más oscuros.Con un texto lírico e impresionantes ilustraciones, aquí hay una biografía ilustrada sobre un chef y humanitario de renombre mundial que seguramente inspirará a una nueva generación de ayudantes comunitarios.A moving picture book biography about chef José Andrés, who, along with his World Central Kitchen organization, is sure to inspire kids to help out in their own communities.José Andrés&’s love of cooking began as a young boy in Spain as he gathered the wood to make the fire that would cook the paella just right. José loved everything about it: the sizzling olive oil, the mounds of chopped vegetables, and the smell of saffron. When he left home, he realized he wanted to tell stories with food. And tell them he did, creating magic with the seeds of ripe tomatoes and pomegranates and cheese. His dreams grew until they were as big as the stars in the sky. He thought, No one should ever go hungry. I want to help feed the world-- and World Central Kitchen was born.From the earthquake in Haiti to the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic, José and his team at World Central Kitchen have been at the frontlines, serving more than 200 million meals and counting, and bringing comfort and hope in the darkest times.With a lyrical text and stunning illustrations, here is a picture book biography about a world-renowned humanitarian and chef that&’s sure to inspire a new generation of community helpers.