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Looking After Eggs and Babies
Looking After Eggs and Babies is an informational text explaining how mothers and fathers in nature look after their eggs and babies. Some babies are in dens or nests, others are carried in pouches or on the legs or back. The text is composed of...
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Looking at the Fish
Looking at Fish is an expository text that invites readers to become familiar with the parts of a fish. The book begins by showing a photograph of a fish with its teeth, mouth, eyes, head, skin, and tail labeled. Photographs throughout label one body...
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Looking Inside Cells
Looking Inside Cells is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about cells such as, shape and size, cell membranes, diffusion, inside cells, cell movement, and making more cells. Readers gain information from text and graphics. Multiple...
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Lost Tribes
Lost Tribes is an expository text that invites readers to learn about the tribes of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Illustrations depict content and ideas in the text. Many illustrations are labeled and include captions. A map with a simple...
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Louis Pasteur and The Fight Against Germs
Louis Pasteur and the Fight Against Germs is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about the great French scientist, Louis Pasteur, including his early years, entry into chemistry, becoming a professor and helping save the French industry. The...
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Lungs
Lungs is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about the lungs, such as breathing, knowing when to breathe, and taking care of your lungs. The back of the book includes a section on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from...
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Make It Healthy
Make It Healthy is an expository nonfiction text that explores making your own healthy meals, planning meals, healthy snacks, and taking charge in the kitchen. The book contains several healthy recipes for students to try themselves. The back of the book...
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Making Holes
Making Holes is an expository nonfiction text that explains making holes for a train, in a tree, in eggs, in ice, and in sand. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Making Holes includes critical thinking questions to guide the...
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Making Roads
Making Roads is an expository text about how roads, bridges, and motorways are made. Readers are also invited to learn about the materials that make roads such as concrete, sand, steel, and stone. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are...
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Mammals Under Water
Mammals Under Water is an informational explanation that describes how marine mammals, such as manatees, whales, seals, and otters, breathe, keep warm, care for their babies, feed, and sleep under water. The style is informative and conversational...
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie: Pioneering Physicist is a biography of two-time Nobel prize-winner Marie Curie. Sidebars provide helpful information and brief profiles of numerous other visionaries. The book concludes with an activity written in procedural...
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Marvelous Menus
Marvellous Menus is animal fantasy with a series of fictional menus for a variety of restaurants run by different animals. Some of the restaurant menus include: Rodents’ Restaurant, Cats’ Café, Dinosaurs’ Dial-A-Meal, and Tiger...