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Community centers are places where people gather. People can take classes, play sports, and go to meetings! In this book, beginning readers will learn the ins and outs of community centers and all that goes on in them. Low-level text combines with bright photos to introduce key facts, while diagrams, labels, and a picture glossary reinforce the contents. This simple title will give readers a new appreciation for their local community center!

In this Spanish-translated classic folktale, the Town Mouse visits his cousin, Country Mouse. He makes the town seem like a wonderful place where the food is bountiful and delicious. When Country Mouse agrees to go to town with his cousin, he soon finds out what a dangerous place the town can actually be. Is eating well worth this much potential peril? With large font, plentiful dialogue, and enchanting illustrations, children will learn it is important...

Paley is not excited about six weeks on a horse ranch without access to the virtual game Dragonfyre. But when she makes an exciting discovery near the ranch, real life finally feels interesting. Can she turn her courage into action?

Every J Stephen's Garden Storybook is a wonderful read that not only provides a story with an uplifting moral, but also encourages your children to try and make, and most importantly, enjoy eating a wonderful children's friendly dish. Poor Sidney, from the day he was born, he was much smaller and weaker than all the other baby string beans. Sidney started life barely holding on to the string bean vine. As they reached for the sun and drank from the...

Savannah: Hostess City of the South for Grade 2 provides teachers with an informational text focused on Georgia state studies. It is appropriately leveled for different types of reading levels and features primary source materials. This nonfiction reader is aligned to Georgia's Standards of Excellence.

Joining Barefoot's singalong collection, this upbeat story depicts residents of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, New York, who are dancing down to their neighborhood block party. From samba-dancing nurses to reggaeton-loving firefighters, this unique song-story introduces 10 kinds of Latin, Afro-Latin, and African American dance and music from throughout the Americas. Readers can count along in English and Spanish as they visit each floor...

Hanna's terrified of horses. But then she meets Shy Guy, a horse who's equally afraid of people. Shy Guy begins to trust Hanna, but when his mysterious past is revealed, does Hanna have enough self-confidence to save him?

After Texas joined the United States in 1845, Texas began to form its own identity centered on the rise of the Texas cattle industry and the growing legend of the Texas cowboy. Through vivid images, maps, easy-to-read text, and intriguing facts, this book teaches readers about important events in Texas history such as the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Sumter, and Reconstruction. Readers will also learn about Texas cowboys, cattle trade, and what cowboy...

How Do We Live Together: Hawks, opens young eyes to the bustling world around them and gently encourages early learning. Boys and girls will see how hawks care for their young, and find out where they live, what they eat and how they behave. Readers are encouraged to think critically about how we share our backyards with these wonderful birds.

This multicultural children's book is a classic Hawaiian story that both children and parents will love. A familiar sight in Hawaii is the giant banyan tree, its huge mass supported by roots growing down from the branches to the ground below. This engaging story of one such banyan tree Aunty Pinau's Banyan Tree begins when the Little Wind soils a clothesline full of clean laundry. Aunty Pinau sets out to buy a "wind catcher" and, to her little nephew...