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Students learn more about how excellent critical thinking can help them succeed in the classroom, socially, and in their future careers! The title tackles this essential life skill in an age-appropriate and participatory way, drawing them into fun-filled "investigations" of critical thinking skills illustrated to depict a realistic and relatable classroom situation. Critical Thinking invites readers to "investigate" four story-centered scenarios related...

Describes in illustrations and simple text the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, culminating in man's first lunar landing.

This story teaches us that differences in friendship can initially be hard to understand, but can ultimately bring us closer together. It also teaches us that conflict in a friendship is okay, and can be overcome with love. Dealing with change can be very hard, but challenges like these help us to grow.

"Daniel Tiger loves firefighters! Today at school he gets to meet real firefighters and it turns out Dr. Anna is one of them. Daniel did not know that someone could be a doctor and a firefighter! Daniel likes fire trucks, but he also likes boats, dolls, music, and more. Maybe he can grow up to be more than one thing too!"--Back cover.

Grace loves the beautiful sea ponies that swim in the warm, clear waters around her village. So when she finds out that cruel Lady Cavendish is sailing out to catch the ponies, Grace needs her new friends Maya and Sophy to help her save them.

"Colorful leaves whisper to each other. Geese honk as they flock across the sky. Pumpkins listen patiently from their patch. The season announces itself in all sorts of ways-if you stop to say hello! A grandfather and his granddaughter welcome fall in this sweet, whimsical story about finding beauty and wonder in every moment."--Page [2] of cover.

"It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then the Tox began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls of the Raxter School don't dare wander outside the surrounding fence, to where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means...

A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways.

A comedy-adventure that centers on Blu, a flightless macaw who acts more human than bird. When Blu, the last of his kind, discovers there's another, and that she's a she, he embarks on an adventure to magical Rio. There he meets Jewel and a menagerie of vivid characters who help Blu fulfill his dream and learn to fly.

Explains that many grown-ups dress up like Santa Claus during Christmas in order to help him out, as Santa himself helped out a lost bird one Christmas.