"This Level 3 guided reader introduces basic facts about sea stars, including their physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask the student to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words."--

Whose foot is this? An intriguing close-up of an animal's foot piques curiosity that's satisfied on the following page with a stunning full-size photo of the animal itself and a brief description of how the foot is used. A tiger stalks its prey on velvet paws. A gecko's ribbed feet enable it to climb walls as smooth as glass. The mole uses its feet for digging. The webbed feet of a duck help it swim. Rabbits and kangaroos have feet adapted for jumping...

Introduces the life cycle of a spider, describing how it hatches, develops, spins webs, and feeds. Did you know that when a spider's web is damaged, a spider will often eat the remaining silk before making a new one? Young children will make many discoveries in this tale of a day in the life of a spider.

Simple text and color photographs introduce readers to cement mixers.

Children build various traps, trying to catch the leprechaun as he brings mischief to each of their houses.

Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...

Beep! Beep! Back up into one of the toughest construction machines: bulldozers! Learn why bulldozers are are important at the job site, what makes them special, and more.

Very simple, easy-to-read text pairs up with fun photographs to teach little readers that ears are for hearing, as well as all the quiet--or loud--things they can hear! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Very simple, easy-to-read text pairs up with fun photographs to teach little readers that mouths are for tasting, as well as all the delicious--or icky--things they can taste! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

"Readers will learn about one of their favorite farm animals--cows! This title is informative--telling readers what cows eat, what they look like, and how we use cow products every day."--Publisher's website.