PreK-8

America is a country that is filled with many immigrants. Traveling to a new country takes great courage and is not easy. Compare and contrast immigration today with immigration long ago and explore some of the many reasons people desire to become...

This fact-filled, nonfiction book will teach readers about various types of laws--from city laws to national ones--and what impact they have on us.

Immigrants move to America for many reasons. Follow the lives of four special immigrants from China, Poland, Peru, and the Dominican Republic to see how they help make America a great country.

Young readers will learn about trading and buying goods and services in this book. They will also learn to understand the differences between wants and needs.

Readers will learn the history behind the Declaration of Independence and what makes it such an important document in American history.

This book teaches children all about bats and how they live.

Billie B. learns to be quite creative and adaptable in the two beginning chapter books contained in this volume. In story one, her baby brother destroys her school project, but she comes up with an idea the morning it is due. In the second story,...

In this installment of the popular series, Billie B. becomes a big sister and learns the importance of telling the truth.

This book allows children to see the amazing diversity of life found in a coral reef.

Uncle Manuel leaves his dragon Ziggy with Eduardo while he goes to a retreat. Eduardo discovers that Ziggy is actually a girl dragon when she lays an egg in the linen closet and, days later, out hatches a baby dragon. In this hilarious book, told...

A little boy complains to his uncle in a series of emails about how hard it is to pet sit his dragon. Readers will love seeing the hilarious havoc the dragon causes.

In book three, Billie learns she should not play with scissors and cut her own hair and decides that finding a secret message in a bottle is a great way to make friends at the beach.

A Spanish boy befriends a girl named Saida who emigrates from Morocco. He helps her learn Spanish and she teaches him Arabic. Readers get a chance to learn Arabic as well.

In the first of the two beginning chapter books in this beginning reader, Billie B. takes a class trip to the zoo and becomes the teacher's extra-special helper. In the second one, it's Christmas and both Billie and her friend Jack want new bicycles.

A one-eyed dog rescues a magpie with a burnt wing, and the two become fast friends. But the deep, caring bond between Dog and Magpie is threatened when Fox, jealous of their friendship, conceives a plan to separate them forever.

This book offers an ingenious way to teach children about division. It can also be used for units or farming, friendship, and character education as Monkey and Bear plant seeds and share their bounty among themselves and their friends.

In the first of the two chapter books in this volume, Billie B. makes a second-best friend. In the second one, she has a backyard camp out with her best friend Jack.

Join Billie and Jack as they attempt ballet and show everyone that girls can play soccer just as good as boys can.

Experiments with inclined planes, pulleys, wheels, and other everyday objects teach children about forces and motion.

Magnets are an endless source of fascination. This book clearly explains all their power and secrets.

Discover the fascinating world of sound.

Estela is thrilled when the instructor asks her to participate in the salsa exercise class at the community center. When she returns to dance another day, she is told no children could participate. She takes a lesson from her social studies class and...

A young boy named Carlitos shares the joys (and sometimes the aggravations) of life with his older special needs brother Enrique. The book carries a wonder message about acceptance and anti-bullying.

Ana and her family move to the United States from Mexico when she is 8. Ana picks up English quickly, but her mother struggles. Her mother enrolls in night classes and learns how to defend herself in her new language.

Based on the author's own family story, this bilingual book describes the ingenuity one little Mexican American girl uses to create a room of her own from what was once a storage closet.

There are natural and man-made things all around us. This book will get children to start thinking about what falls into each category.

Learn how to classify animals with this easy-to-use book.

This book teaches children all about electricity from how we use it to how to produce it.

This book examines different climates and weather phenomena.

Photographs and concise text teach children about pollination.

This book helps children understand photosynthesis.

Children will be fascinated to learn what certain types of animals do to survive the cold winter months.

Who's written the letter that Dad finds on his desk? Juliet, no less! She's one of the family cats that has decided to communicate with her owner. But how did she learn to write? And, more importantly, what does her letter say?

This set contains 15 varied bilingual books.

This delightful story about unrequited love offers an original theory into the origin of sweet and sour Chinese cuisine. It also shows the power of friendship, music, and perseverance.

Children will love discovering what lives and grows in their very own backyards.

What kind of animals and plants live and thrive underground? Come discover this diverse habitat.

Mama Alma explains the importance of remembering people who have passed away to her granddaughter Bella and tells her what she should do to celebrate her life after she has died. Pat Mora uses this story to imagine how the Day of the Dead traditions...

Every Sunday, like clockwork, this young girl receives a phone call from her father, which she's grown to look forward to. He lives far away -- on the other side of the ocean -- and they haven't seen each other in over a year. On this particular day,...

Young René is from El Salvador, and he doesn't understand why his name has to be different in the United States. When he writes Colato, he sees his paternal grandparents, René and Amelia. When he writes Laínez, he sees his maternal grandparents, Angela...