Posts Tagged ‘levelled-readers’

Introduces the history of trains, from the nineteenth-century steam locomotives that bridged the American East and West to the Japanese “pusher” commuter trains and the Scottish train used as the Hogwarts Express in the “Harry Potter” films.

An introduction to monster trucks discusses their history, mechanical features, and how they are used in competing and racing.

Describes how whales live and some different types of whales.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter.

Examines the accomplishments of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron, all of whom were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Describes the eruption of Mount St. Helen’s in Washington State in 1980 and provides a simple explanation of how and why volcanoes erupt.

Illus. in full color.

Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater. Simultaneous.

A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid’s tail for legs to win the love of a prince.