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DK DK Super Readers Level 2 Earth Smart
Book SynopsisBe smart about protecting our planet. Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about what you can do to protect our planet - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Earth Smart is a beautifully designed reader all about two children learning how to look after the environment while having fun. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about how they can make a difference to the environment, from recycling to not littering.
£6.49
DK DK Super Readers Level 3 Fossils
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£6.48
DK DK Super Readers Level 3 Bioluminescent Animals
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£13.49
DK Language Around the World
Book SynopsisDiscover fascinating facts about communication in all its forms, from around the world and over timeEngaging factual writing introduces young readers to the most interesting aspects of languages, how they evolve and change over time. Humans’ use of language is one of our distinguishing features. Language allows us to communicate what we think, what we want, what we feel, and what we have learned. Some 100,000 years ago, humans began speaking. Since then, we have developed nearly 7000 languages. Languages are living things; they evolve and change over time. They even travel! People carry their language with them and spread it. Large language families even have their own family trees, such as Spanish, French, English. Different languages can be mixed and combined to create new languages with similar words, pronunciation, and grammar rules. Languages can even become extinct if they are not shared and learned by each new generation. Spoken languag
£13.49
Running Press Kids Your Freedom Your Power
Book SynopsisA nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and how it informs our daily lives, this book clearly explains the fundamentals of American politics to middle grade readers.A Junior Library Guild Selection! Chicago Public Library’s BEST BOOKS OF 2023! The First Amendment grants kids and every other citizen five monster privileges: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. If the First Amendment is everywhere in their lives, shouldn’t kids know more about it? Yes! In Your Freedom, Your Power, middle grade readers get a focused look at their freedoms and rights through the lens of this all-powerful First Amendment. The book engages children in learning more about their country and their rights and responsibilities. Each section will answer key questions readers may have thought about like: Do I have th
£15.29
Holiday House Inc Brown V Board of Education A Fight for Simple
Book SynopsisAn award-winning author chronicles the story behind the landmark Supreme Court decision in this fascinating account for young readers. In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. The ruling was the culmination of work by many people who stood up to racial inequality, some risking significant danger and hardship, and of careful strategizing by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin tells the stories behind the ruling and the people responsible for it. Illustrated with historical photographs, this well-researched narrative account is a perfect introduction to the history of school segregation in the United States and the long struggle to end it. An epilogue looks at the far-reaching effects of this landmark decision, and shows how our country still grapples today with a public
£14.39
Holiday House Inc Soñadores
Book SynopsisYuyi Morales, artista galardonada con la Mención de Honor Caldecott y cinco veces ganadora del Premio Pura Belpré, cuenta su historia como inmigrante en este libro ilustrado tributo al poder transformador de la esperanza... y de la lectura. En 1994, Yuyi Morales dejó su hogar en Xalapa, México, para emigrar a Estados Unidos con su hijo pequeño. Aunque dejó atrás casi todas sus pertenencias, no llegó con las manos vacías.Trajo consigo su fortaleza, su trabajo, su pasión, sus esperanzas y sueños... y sus historias. El nuevo y magnífico libro de Yuyi Morales, Soñadores, se centra en la búsqueda por encontrar un hogar en un nuevo lugar. El trayecto de Yuyi y su hijo Kelly no fue fácil, ya que ella no hablaba inglés en esa época. Pero, juntos, descubrieron un lugar desconocido e increíble: la biblioteca pública. Allí, libro
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Holiday House Inc Hello Neighbor The Kind and Caring World of
Book SynopsisKindness, caring, and reliance on our neighbors are more important now than ever before. We all need more Mister Rogers in our lives.In difficult times, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood provided a refuge for children and their families alike; a way to understand and talk about what was happening, and find hope for a brighter tomorrow. Groundbreaking in a quiet, generous way, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood introduced a generation of children to the wonders of the world in the comfort of their own living rooms. Fred Rogers took young viewers to art museums, introduced them to different professions, and talked through difficult subjects like losing a loved one, or experiencing parents' divorce, with compassion and reassurance.Share that deep respect, care, and quiet joy in the day-to-day with the only authorized picture book biography of Fred Rogers--lovingly created by Caldecott Medalist Matt Cordell.Lively, colorful illustrations explore Fred Rogers' earl
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Holiday House Inc Soadores
Book SynopsisThis Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller Dreamers is now available in paperback!Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version Soñadores, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their home within it.Soñadores is a celebration of what migrants bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own gifts wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes un
£9.41
School Zone Big Second Grade Workbook Big Workbook
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£13.99
PAW PRINTS READER Dr. Carla Hayden The First Woman Librarian of
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£7.28
Square Fish BECOMING MADELEINE
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£11.18
WW Norton & Co Resistance My Story of Activism
Book SynopsisA young activist opens a window for young readers into his fight for equal education, racial justice, and economic equity.
£12.99
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Swimming Upstream
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£7.99
Capstone Press Manners in the Library Way to be Manners
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£9.99
National Geographic Kids Brain Games Experiments
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£11.51
Orca Book Publishers Time for School
£26.37
Sourcebooks A Thank You Letter to My Homeschool
Book SynopsisDeb Adamson is a former broadcast news journalist, freelance essayist, and syndicated columnist for Gatehouse News Service. Her column about homeschooling her son was read in over 250 print newspapers nationally and online, where it is still available as a resource to homeschool families. Deb writes picture books, board books, chapter books, and middle grade novels in both fiction and nonfiction, and she's a member of SCBWI. In addition to authoring children's books, Deb writes for adults and hosts workshops on memoirs, humor, and revision. Deb currently lives on the Connecticut shoreline with her husband. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DebAdamsonBooks. To learn more, visit debadamson.com.Airin O'Callaghan is an illustrator, muralist and educator who mainly draws for children. Her work includes "Some Bodies" and "The Mermaid With No Tail." She is the founder of Mural Wish, a nonprofit that donates murals for critically ill children. Airin lives in the Bay Ar
£14.84
DK Super Simple Chemistry
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£19.79
DK Babys First Hanukkah
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£8.93
Reycraft Books Books on Horseback
£18.09
Flowerpot Press How Do Scientists Ask Questions
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£12.13
Flowerpot Press How Do Scientists Ask Questions
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£11.50
Flowerpot Press How Do You Turn Data Into Drawings
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£12.19
Flowerpot Press How Do Meteorologists Predict the Future
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£12.19
Flowerpot Press How Did Dinosaurs Get So Gigantic
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£12.34
Flowerpot Press How Did Dinosaurs Get So Gigantic
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£10.45
Flowerpot Press Police in Our School
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£9.99
Flowerpot Press School Bus Safety
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£9.99
Lerner Publishing Group Sofias First Day of School
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£11.29
Capstone Press Schools Have Rules
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£9.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Who Was Mister Rogers?
Book SynopsisEven though he’s best known for his successful PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood, Fred Rogers never dreamed of working in television. In fact, he hated the very first program that he ever watched! Join author Diane Bailey as she takes readers through the journey that brought Mister Rogers into our living rooms. From his childhood interest in puppet-making and music, to his courageous visit to Russia during the Cold War, this book details Mister Rogers’s quest for kindness and his gentle appeal to be more neighbourly.
£7.58
Sleeping Bear Press Miss Betti What Is This
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Candlewick Press,U.S. Flights of Fancy: Creative Inspiration from Ten
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£17.99
Candlewick Press,U.S. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Book SynopsisIn luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.
£9.49
Candlewick Press,U.S. Schomburg: El hombre que creó una biblioteca
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Lerner Publishing Group Undecided, 2nd Edition: Navigating Life and Learning After High School
£15.68
Creative Company The Burning of the Books
£16.65
Free Spirit Publishing Inc.,U.S. What Do You Stand For? For Teens
Book SynopsisYoung people need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits--but they can also build their own. This book by the best-selling author of The Kid's Guide to Social Action invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more. Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books, organizations, programs, and Web sites.Trade ReviewParent Council(R) SelectionParent Council(R) Selection
£20.89
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices
Book SynopsisA collection of poems, written from the perspectives of six students of different ages and backgrounds, reflects the worries, hopes and successes they experience on their first day of school. By the author of Kyle''s Island.
£15.19
Smithsonian Books Awesome Adventures at the Smithsonian: The
Book SynopsisFrom Dorothy''s red slippers to dinosaurs to the Wright brothers'' plane, the Smithsonian is filled with objects fascinating to kids. Yet choosing what to see at the Smithsonian can challenge even the most enthusiastic families. Packed with activities, information, and pictures, this lively new guide offers children ages 8-12 years a way to navigate the Smithsonian. Engaging maps, photographs, and illustrations present the main museum halls along with puzzles, games, mad libs, and pages for journal entries, drawings, and superlatives that will help get kids ready for their big trip to the nation''s capital and keep them focused and attentive as they navigate the world''s largest museum complex that is the Smithsonian Institution. Awesome Adventures at the Smithsonian (spiral bound) is the perfect way to engage any child on their big trip to Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian.
£12.34
School Zone School Zone Kindergarten Basics 64-Page Workbook
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£6.91
Astra Publishing House My Librarian is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to
Book SynopsisDo you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the trouble of packing books on the backs of elephants or driving miles to deliver books by bus? Because, as one librarian in Azerbaijan says, "Books are as important to us as air or water!" This is the intriguing photo essay, a celebration of books, readers, and libraries.Trade Review"With little information available about libraries of the world, this title offers a glimpse into the world of books, which several countries consider as important as air or water. This might be an interesting revelation to many students who consider reading a laborious task and to those who take an abundance of books very much for granted." — School Library Journal"One of the more unusual books about libraries, this may also get kids thinking about children in other countries in a way that the series books never do." — Kirkus Reviews"The easygoing and accessible narrative would work well as either a readaloud or as a text for independent readers. . . . Well organized and engaging." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
£12.99
Astra Publishing House My School in the Rain Forest: How Children Attend
Book SynopsisAt a school that sits on the edge of the Sahara, students are learning to speak English from a teacher who stands in front of a Webcam in North America. These students are learning in a virtual classroom. In another part of the world, kids aren't waiting to ride the bus to school—they are waiting to hop in a boat that will take them to a school that floats on a river. And some kids don't mind heights, especially those who attend a school on the slope of a mountain in the Himalayas, in one of the most remote corners of the earth. Margriet Ruurs contacted teachers and volunteers, many of whom took cameras in hand to photograph their schools and students. In this lively photo-essay, readers get to know students—from the arid plains of southern Afghanistan to the rain forests of Guatemala—who are pursuing their dreams of a brighter future.Trade Review"Accessible and inspiring. . . . Impressive in scope. . . . An excellent choice for the classroom and a strong introduction to such topics as global diversity and the importance of education." —Kirkus Reviews"Gives a good sense of the vastly different educational experiences of children around the world." —Booklist
£12.99
Astra Publishing House Jumping Off Library Shelves
Book SynopsisHere is the library! Fifteen poems celebrate the thrill of getting your first library card, the excitement of story hour, the fun of using the computer, the pride of reading to the dog, and the joy of discovering that the librarian understands you and knows exactly which books you'll love. The poems in this engaging picture book are compiled by noted poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins.All pay homage to the marvels of books and reading. Accompanied by Jane Manning's colorful, imaginative illustrations, this collection celebrates the magic of libraries and is a must for every school and public library -- and it's ideal for anyone who loves to visit their local library, too!Trade Review"The title of this book of 15 poems will immediately grab the attention of teachers and librarians. All together, the listing of titles in the table of contents forges a lyrical look at what libraries mean to individuals. Many of the poets are well-known in children's literature, and the poems are personal and heartfelt.... The page composition and text placement add playfulness, while the gouache-and-pencil illustrations are buoyant and imaginative. Wispy backgrounds and splotches of color add ebullience. Hopkins, a master anthologist, has compiled an excellent collection... The overall effect is an endearing accolade for fellow book and library mavens." — Kirkus Reviews "This delightful illustrated collection celebrates libraries and their diverse offerings and opportunities... (e)nchanting gouache-and-pencil illustrations range from whimsical... to sweet, like cozily sharing a book à deux, snow falling outside. Honoring libraries as places and resources that can inspire joy, learning, and imagination, this is charming all around." — Booklist"Fifteen poems by writers including Nikki Grimes, J. Patrick Lewis, Alice Schertle, and Jane Yolen sing the praises of libraries and reading.... [A] quiet, focused collection, one that will certainly find a home in libraries and in the homes of those who love them." — Publishers Weekly
£12.99
Astra Publishing House Read! Read! Read!
Book SynopsisCapture the joys of reading in this amazing poetry collection! From that thrilling moment when a child first learns to decipher words, to the excitement that follows in reading everything from road signs to field guides to internet articles to stories, these poems celebrate reading. They also explore what reading does -- how it opens minds, can make you kind, and allows you to explore the whole world. Ryan O’Rourke’s rich artwork beautifully captures the imagination and playfulness in these poems by noted author Amy Ludwig VanDerwater.Trade Review"VanDerwater and O'Rourke have created a compendium of poetry that focuses on the sheer joy of reading. Twenty-three selections of varying rhyme schemes convey a world rich with emotions and experiences. Each verse is connected to relatable reading milestones, such as laughing over the Sunday comics or staying up late to read under the covers. Conversational in style, these poems provide illustrative cues that invite children to explore imagery... (f)antastical at times, O'Rourke's vivid artwork blends seamlessly with VanDerwater's text, fluctuating between bright and dark colors to suggest tone. A pleasing addition for poetry collections serving young children." -School Library Journal "Learning to read, wanting to read, daring to read—nearly every state of mastering the word is explored in VanDerwater's collection of 23 poems. Bookless? No worries. Cereal boxes, road signs, or even wildly decorated notebook paper can fill the bill for the greedy page gobbler. But if you happen to have a book...ahhhh, the sublime delight of reading under the covers way past dark (just like mom did) is unsurpassed. 'She taught me how / a story leaps / like magic / from each page. / I'm sure my mom / read past her bedtime / under blankets / at my age."' -Kirkus Reviews "Lifelong readers can relate to similar milestones: that incredible surge of excitement when letters suddenly begin to make sense...This collection of poems celebrates these experiences...Topics will resonate with school-age audiences...and the satisfying meter and rhyme schemes...make sharing enjoyable for adults. (The) illustrations...align perfectly with each selection's tone, helping young readers interpret imagery and appreciate nuances...April may be Poetry Month, but this collection is worth sharing at any time." - Booklist
£12.99
Boutique of Quality Books Secret Kindness Agents
Book SynopsisSecret Kindness Agents was a featured segment on the Hallmark Channel airing of The Christmas Train in December 2017.Moved by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, Ferial Pearson wondered if a simple act of kindness could change a life. She thought of the school where she taught and the students she guided every day and wondered, what would happen if we started secretly carrying out small acts of kindness in school? Could a modest act of compassion really change the course of a life? She posed the question to her students. They didn’t have the answers but they were willing to find out. So they became the Secret Kindness Agents. They not only changed the lives of those they met, they changed their own. Their hope, their hearts, and their hunger for happiness will inspire you to change your small corner of the world, in your own way, for the better. Let them show you how they did it, and how you can do the same.This program has been implemented in over 350 schools across the country.
£12.56
Tharpa Publications What Is Buddhism?: Buddhism for Children Level
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