Product Description: The flower is the part of a plant that makes seeds or fruit. Readers will identify the main parts of a flower and learn about the process of pollination. Simple text and supportive photos and diagrams help students comprehend this important science concept.

Product Description: Have you ever worn silk? Eaten rice? Used a calendar? All these things came from ancient China. More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese invented tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Chinese lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them...read more

Rebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids' Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker than four o'clock. When she finds out her annoying neighbor Bambi Lovering won five hundred dollars by playing a ukulele behind her head in a beauty contest, Rebel decides to win the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department's beauty pageant. Rebel may not be a typical pageant contestant, but how hard can it be? Rebel's dramatic reading about life is the Pleistocene era is sure to blow away the competition.It turns out that winning a beauty pageant is harder than it looks. By the end of the summer, Rebel has learned a thing or two about her true calling that will surprise everyone--most of all, herself.

Product Description: Calling all patriotic kids! America's capital beckons, offering the White House and a black bear at the National Zoo; soft cherry blossoms and a “hard” spider sculpture at the National Gallery; as well as the big Lincoln Memorial and a small thrush-the DC city bird.   

Product Description: In late April 1607, three British ships arrived at the coast of the Virginia Colony. An exploration party rowed to shore, and within weeks, the group had established a settlement they called Jamestown. The settlers endured illnesses, lack of profitable crops, starvation, and hostilities with Native Americans...read more

Product Description: Even though Stenny Green is only nine, hes an expert on dirigibles, especially the Hindenburg. On May 5, 1937, he sneaks in the local naval base to watch the huge airship land. As it hovers over the landing area, the ship suddenly catches fire...read more

Product Description: This book covers the 1787 convention, where delegates discussed revising the Articles of Confederation (the original U.S. constitution). The object of the convention was to improve the workings of the federal government. In September the new constitution was adopted.

Product Description: It hauls heavy cargo. It travels long distances. This big rig is on the move! What kind of cargo do big rigs carry? And how do big rig drivers talk to one another?

Product Description: What’s up in Virginia? Fast thoroughbred horses, slow wagons at Colonial Williamsburg, tall ships at historic Jamestown, and much more.  Spend a very special Virginia day with a little girl as she covers the state from dawn to dusk, ending as the moon rises over the gently rolling Blue Ridge Mountains...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Alex, Mattie, and Sophie climb the giant vine sprouting in their garden, they reach a castle in the sky and discover that they are in a mixed-up fairy tale.