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Pet Perspectives
Pet Perspectives is a debate about various pet issues including whether rats should be kept as pets, whether pets should be returnable, and whether every family needs a pet. The book also discusses text connections, planning a debate, and features...
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Pioneering Ecologists
Pioneering Ecologists is an expository nonfiction text about scientists who want to know how things fit together in the natural world: ecologists. Scientists covered include John Woodward, Aldo Leopold, Ruth Patrick, Eugene Odum, Jane Lubchenco and Neo...
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Pioneers of Earth Science
Pioneers of Earth Science is an expository nonfiction text that explores geologists and the tools they use to better understand our planet and covers topics such as, maps and globes, the first geologists of modern times, improving maps, and protecting...
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Pioneers of Light and Sound
Pioneers of Light and Sound is an expository nonfiction text about scientists who studied light and sound such as Thomas Young, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Oberlin Smith, and Alexander Graham Bell. The text...
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Piranhas
Piranhas is an expository text that explores a piranha’s teeth, their jaw, what they eat, and where they live. An illustrated map with a legend shows readers where piranhas live. Captions are found on some pages and provide important information...
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Pirates
Pirates is an exciting informational report about the thieving life on the high seas. The text looks at pirates’ ships, attacks, and treasure – including treasure maps. The style is informative and conversational. The book has a...
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PLANETS
Planets is an expository nonfiction text that explains the solar system, the planets, and where we are in the solar system. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A...
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Plants Eat Meat Too
Plants Eat Meat, Too is an expository text about plants that can eat meat, such as sticky traps, Venus fly-traps, and water traps. Images enhance and extend meaning of the text. Most images are labeled. An index is included. Interest words include...
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Poisonous Animals
Poisonous Animals is an expository nonfiction text that explains animals with poison inside them as well as poisonous claws, fangs, skin, spines, and stingers. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Poisonous Animals includes...
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Policeman's Files
Policeman’s File is a fictional collection of letters, faxes, and emails all sent to Policeman O’Donnell. The book also discusses features of letters, faxes, and emails. The story unfolds in first - person with illustrations that...
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Ponds
Ponds is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about ponds, life in a pond, a pond’s life cycle, and ponds at risk. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A...
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Pop and Roman
Pop and Roman is a realistic, humorous story about a boy name Roman and his Pop who use a map to get to Can Can Cave where dinosaur bones are buried. Roman reads the map upside down and Pop helps direct him to the cave. After finding bones, Roman helps...