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The Tool Makers
The Tool Makers is an informational report on tools through the ages, from the Stone Age to the New Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The style is informative and conversational. The book has a contents and is divided into five sections...
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The True Cost of Food
The True Cost of Food is an informational report on the environmental impact associated with food production. Global warming, food miles, animal faming, commercial fishing, water consumption, and chemical sprays are among the topics covered. ...
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The Volcano Awakes
The Volcano Awakes! is a first-person factual recount of a reporter’s experience covering the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Narrative and dialogue are used to tell the dramatic story. The style is highly descriptive and includes the use...
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The Waterhole
The Waterhole is an expository text that explores the kinds of animals that come to the waterhole. The sentence stem “The baby ____ is at the waterhole, too” is repeated throughout the book. A picture of the animals that visit the waterhole...
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The Wild Ones
The Wild Ones is a biography of Velma Johnston, an American woman who spent decades fighting to put an end to the slaughter of wild horses for human and animal food. The text contains numerous excerpts from Johnston’s own writing. The book...
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Thrills on Water
Thrills on Water is an expository nonfiction text that explains a variety of trilling but dangerous water sports like white-water rafting and surfing. The text discusses how these sports differ from one another and how the variety of sports equipment are...
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Through the Eyes of the Camera
Through the Eye of the Camera is an informational report on the many uses of photographic technology. Photographs are essential to the communications industry, police work, and wildlife studies, for example. Diagnostic imaging, infrared...
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Tigers
Tigers is an expository text that tells readers about a tiger’s coat, ears, eyes, nose, and whiskers. Readers also learn about baby tigers. Labeled illustrations enhance and extend the meaning of the text and are found on each page. Callouts prompt...
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Time to Sleep
Time to Sleep is an expository text that shows children where animals sleep. A picture of an animal sleeping is depicted on a two-page spread. Animals are labeled in illustrations that support the text. Interest words include sleep, den, tree, water, and...
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Toast with Miss Lily
Toast with Miss Lily is a narrative about a boy, Kip, who is angry at his parents for leaving him with a babysitter, Miss Lily, while they go on a trip. Kip warms to Miss Lily when a power failure prompts some improvising and Miss Lily teaches him...
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Tongues
Tongues is an expository text about the different tongues that animals have and how they use them. The tongue of each animal is labeled. An index is presented. Interest words include flick, tongue, sticky, danger, and hiss. Adjectives and adverbs are...
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Tooth Walkers
Toothwalkers is an expository text that invites readers to learn about walruses. The text explores useful tools that walruses use, how they hunt for food, and how they care for their young. Illustrations depict content and ideas in the text. Many...