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Leopard & Silkie
One Boy's Quest to Save the Seal Pups

Henry Holt and Co.
In the Pacific Northwest, concerned volunteers become seal sitters, keeping vigil over the vulnerable baby seals that are left on the shore while their mothers...
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Summer Days and Nights

Henry Holt and Co.
On a hot summer day, a little girl finds ways to entertain herself and stay cool. She catches a butterfly, sips lemonade, jumps in a pool, and goes on a...
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The Family Tree

Henry Holt and Co.
A man in the 1800s comes upon a beautiful forest and decides to build his home there. When he clears the land, he leaves one special tree to grace his front...
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Citizen Scientists
Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard

Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the Audubon Bird Count and FrogWatch USA. Just get out into a field,...
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Henry's Heart
A Boy, His Heart, and a New Best Friend

Henry Holt and Co.
Henry (and his heart) are perfectly happy playing indoors. But Henry’s mom encourages him to go for a walk outside. Soon, Henry’s heart starts beating faster....
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Same, Same But Different

Henry Holt and Co.
Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have...
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Who Has These Feet?

Henry Holt and Co.
In a lively guessing game format, find out why the feet of tree frogs, and those of eight other animals, are perfectly adapted to their habitats. Illustrated...
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Star of the Sea
A Day in the Life of a Starfish

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
With the ocean her home, an ochre sea star hunts for her morning meal. She folds over her rays and grips the rocky shore with sticky feet as she feasts on...
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Dark Water Rising

Square Fish
With the entire city under water, will Seth and his family make it out alive?
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The Scrambled States of America Talent Show

Square Fish
It all started quite simply, really. In the middle of the night, New York woke up from a dream and shouted, “HEY, EVERYONE—LET’S HAVE A TALENT SHOW!”...

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The Scrambled States of America

Square Fish
A wacky cross-country adventure starring the fifty states! "Well, it was just your basic, ordinary day in the good old U. S. of A. States all over the...
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In the Small, Small Pond

Henry Holt and Co.
Denise Fleming's book gives young readers a frog's-eye view of life in a pond throughout the seasons. In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor...
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Cactus Hotel

Henry Holt and Co.
It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired, they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is...
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Great Estimations

Square Fish
How many jelly beans are on this book’s cover? Don’t count—estimate!
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Measuring Penny

Square Fish
Lisa has an important homework assignment--to measure something in several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like...
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In the Tall, Tall Grass

Henry Holt and Co.
If you were a fuzzy caterpillar crawling through the tall, tall grass on a sunny afternoon, what would you see? Beginning as the sun is high in the sky and...
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Mummy Math
An Adventure in Geometry

Square Fish
Matt and Bibi use math to escape from a pharaoh’s tomb!
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Into the Sea

Henry Holt and Co.
A beautiful, compelling book about the fragile life cycle of the endangered sea turtle.
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Now & Ben
The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin

Square Fish
Biography and history come to life in this celebration of the inventions and ideas of Benjamin Franklin and how they’ve stood the test of time....
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Mapping Penny's World

Square Fish
Lisa and her dog, Penny, learn the basics of mapmaking in this delightful sequel to Measuring Penny Lisa's class is learning how to make maps. The teacher...
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Blockhead
The Life of Fibonacci

Henry Holt and Co.
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead. When...
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Wake Up, World!
A Day in the Life of Children Around the World

Henry Holt and Co.
Shakeel rides to school in an autorickshaw. Sasha builds houses in the snow. Cidinha helps her mother crack nuts to trade at the market. All around the world...
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Tiger Math
Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger

Owlet Paperbacks
Children learn to graph as they follow the growth of an orphaned Siberian tiger cub. A Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo is orphaned when he is just...
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It's Probably Penny

Henry Holt and Co.
A delightful companion to Measuring Penny Lisa’s class is learning about probability. For part of her homework, she has to think of an event that will...