Central Kansas Library System

Describes pandas and their behavior.

A simple retelling of the fateful days in A.D. 79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted and the people in the ancient town of Pompeii perished.

A young family learns to grow a garden, describing how they prepared the soil, watered their plants, dealt with the animals who invaded their garden, and how all their hard work finally paid off as they harvested vegetables and flowers.

Introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.

During a visit to a space museum, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about planets, space crafts, space suits, and even dirty snowballs (i.e. comets)!

Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...

"Discusses the invention of the John Deere plow and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--

Join Jack and Annie find the facts behind the fiction on polar bears and the Arctic.

In a reissue of the popular Readers series with a fresh new look, children will learn all about volcanoes, as the mechanics of an eruption are described and illustrated with simple, step-by-step pictures.