Black mambas are fast. They can race up to 12 miles per hour! In this title, young readers are introduced to these speedy snakes through engaging, leveled text and crisp photos. Chapters highlight topics such as the snakes’ range and habitat, body parts, hunting style, and babies. Special features add more detail by comparing the snake’s size, highlighting its diet, showing how to spot one, and more!
Boa constrictors are snakes known for their squeezing skills! These predators trap food by wrapping around it. In this title for young readers, leveled text and crisp photos combine to introduce the body parts, behaviors, habitats, and babies of boa constrictors. Special features map the snakes’ range, highlight important body features, show off favorite foods, and more. There’s plenty to learn about these big snakes!
Anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes! In this engaging title, young readers will learn all about how these giants survive in the wild. Leveled text introduces the snakes’ size, body parts, hunting styles, babies, and more. Crisp, vibrant photos reinforce the text, and special features highlight favorite foods, map where anacondas live, show off life span and conservation status, and more. This book will give readers a new appreciation for these supersized snakes!
Moo! Neigh! Adorable baby cows and horses await in this fun title for beginning readers. Carefully leveled text and crisp, cute photos will draw in readers as they learn about the similarities and differences between baby horses and baby cows. Photo labels and a picture glossary help define unfamiliar terms. At the end of the book, readers are asked which baby they think is the cutest!
Before they grow into fierce cats, lions and tigers start off as adorable cubs! In this book for beginning readers, simple text and cute photos combine to show off how the cubs live and play. Familiar sight words help readers gain confidence, while labeled photos and a picture glossary help define unfamiliar words. Readers will love learning about cute baby big cats!
Baby sheep and baby goats are adorable farm babies. But which one is cuter? In this title, readers will decide! Cute photos and carefully leveled text introduce the lives and body parts of these babies. Familiar sight words will give readers confidence as they explore the differences between the babies, while photo labels and a picture glossary will help define unfamiliar words. At the end, readers will decide for themselves which baby is the cutest!
Fox and wolf pups are sure to melt the hearts of readers in this cute book! Adorable photos and leveled text will guide beginning readers as they learn about the body parts and behaviors of these sweet babies. Labels and a photo glossary will help readers distinguish the differences between the animals. Easy-to-read sentences featuring familiar sight words will help early readers follow along as they decide which baby is cuter!
Chickens peck for food on land while ducks nibble for plants in water! These feathery birds are sure to delight young readers with their fluffy cuteness. The pages of this book feature colorful, labeled photos that will pull in readers as they learn about animal body parts and behaviors. Leveled text featuring sight words and a picture glossary help aid in comprehension. Walk through the differences and lives of these baby birds and choose who you think is cuter!
Who doesn’t love baby kittens and puppies? It is hard to pick which one is cuter! This adorable book will delight beginning readers with leveled text and crisp images of kittens and puppies. Familiar sight words will help readers gain confidence, and photo labels will help identify unfamiliar words. At the end of the book, readers are asked to decide who is cuter!
Graders are construction machines that move dirt and other ground materials. This carefully leveled title introduces readers to graders while building reading skills and confidence. Colorful action photos maintain readers’ interest. Features highlight a grader’s main jobs and parts with images and labels. Photo labels and a photo glossary identify and define words that are specific to graders.
Earth movers are construction machines that move big loads. This title introduces beginning readers to the general jobs earth movers can do. It also provides examples of specific earth movers, such as bulldozers, backhoes, and dump trucks. Features highlight the main jobs of earth movers and the main parts of the three specific machines that are highlighted.
Diggers, or excavators, are important machines that help on many construction sites. This title for beginning readers introduces the jobs and parts of these machines. Readers will learn where diggers work, what they do, and what tools they use to do jobs through approachable text and engaging photos. Features highlight the main jobs and parts of excavators, while a photo glossary defines subject-specific words.
Dump trucks are big, strong trucks that move heavy loads. Beginning readers are introduced to the jobs and parts of dump trucks in this fun and colorful title. Leveled text allows readers to gain confidence. Features built their comprehension by summarizing the jobs and parts highlighted in the text. Photo labels and a photo glossary identify and define terms specific to dump trucks and construction.
Concrete mixers are big trucks that have important jobs. They help build many of the buildings and roads we use every day! This title introduces beginning readers to the jobs and parts of concrete mixers. Carefully leveled text and vibrant photos keep readers’ interest. Features summarize the jobs and parts of these construction machines. A photo glossary helps readers understand new terms.
Cranes are tall construction machines that lift heavy loads. This title takes readers to new heights as it introduces the many jobs and parts of cranes. Approachable text and matching photos aid in reading comprehension and build an interest in reading. Bolded glossary terms and a photo glossary identify and define new terms. Features summarize the jobs and parts of these huge construction machines.
A big pile of dirt needs to be flattened. A bulldozer can get the job done! Beginning readers will learn about the jobs and parts of bulldozers in this title. An opening narrative puts a bulldozer on a job site. Leveled text and colorful photos build reading interest and skills. Features summarize a bulldozer’s main jobs and parts. Photo labels and a photo glossary help readers identify subject-specific terms.
The world is full of amazing animals in all shapes and sizes. This series brings these animals to the library and introduces young readers to the wonders of the animal kingdom! Beginning readers will learn about each animal through leveled text and bright, colorful photographs. Special features highlight the range, habitats, life span, food web, and appearance of each animal to help readers retain what they have learned. Students are sure to go wild for these fun books!
Professor Adams makes an adorable mutant critter: a pet alligator crossed with a few dog breeds to make it fluffy and friendly. Everyone else in town is scared of the pal-igator, so Chloe and Professor Adams try to show that their new pet is completely harmless. Unfortunately, an accident at the dog park proves otherwise.
Chloe is helping Professor Adams at her secret underwater lab when she gets a chance to splice her own creature. She wants to make sea monkeys easier to see by making them bright green. But Chloe ends up with a lot more pea monkeys than she can handle. Hundreds of them.
While Professor Adams is out doing errands, Chloe is asked to give the professor's pet, Buddy, a bath. But Buddy is no ordinary pet. He's an electric seal, a unique creature the professor spliced together. Chloe has to figure out a way to bathe a playful but electrifying animal so she doesn't get zapped!
It's Chloe's first day of her summer job as a lab assistant for Professor Adams, who might be a somewhat mad scientist. Chloe has to help take care of Venus flytrap mutants, including what Professor Adams calls a Mean-us Flytrap, a giant three-headed creature that's very hungry.
Chloe and Professor Adams find a rattlesnake about to gobble up a mouse outside the professor's house. Then Chloe gets an idea: why not splice the snake with Essence of Cattle to make it friendlier? After the mutation is complete, Chloe and the professor have a cute but gargantuan cattlesnake problem on their hands. DO.
Chloe spends a day off with her dad, but she unexpectedly comes across Professor Adams's latest creation. Hundreds of crawfish, armed with pencils and paintbrushes, swarm downtown and give it an artistic makeover. But the mayor isn't happy about another incident with the professor's mutants, and he threatens to shut down the experiments for good.
This title looks into where leopard geckos live in the wild, how they survive, and why they are such popular pets! The title also touches on leopard gecko care, so readers can understand a little about what it takes to have a pet.
This title looks into where parakeets live in the wild, how they survive, and why they are such popular pets! The title also touches on parakeet care, so readers can understand a little about what it takes to have a pet. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Cody Koala is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.